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Man, Ultra Magnus could've been better, I wish ambus could remain in the truck cab.
>>5347011
These things are fun!
>>5347021
>>5347017
I wish he didn't exist at all.
>>5347021
Do poses from the movie fight.
>>5347032
Likewise, I'd rather have white optimus, but considering what they went with, they could've tried to follow through with it.
So I got a Waspinator from last bbts sale and it has an "Additional weapon not included" sticker on the underside, what weapon was supposed to came? baby targetmaster Waspinator?
>>5347094
Is he missing his stinger missile weapon?
>>5347094
The baby waspinator came with Thrilling 30's legends Starscream.
The only weapon Generations Waspinator has is the stinger-gun that fits into his butt. Is that missing...?
How the fuck would a Titans Return Scourge work? His head is part of his altmode.
Have the Scourge in question actually be a Grasshopper/Angry Optimus Prime/Dragon?
>>5347011
Praise be to him.
>>5346838
The Henkei version is the same.
But yeah, I've been fiddling with him for a while and I can't find any way to secure his chest, which I certainly hope isn't the case. And there's no peg hole for his gun to fit on his shoulder, either.
I just don't understand the logic behind making a Transformer that can't actually hold a mode.
>>5347135
I feel the same way about the masterpiece seeker, what a awful chest design.
>>5347011
Which Armada Megan is better, the original Armada or the CW?
>>5347139
Yeah, I have the same problem with that mold. And Blitzwing, too. Holy shit what a terrible toy.
After some fiddling with Hound I figured out that his wheels can hold his chest together pretty tightly, but I have to wonder why there's no peg or anything. Seems like a massive oversight.
>>5347144
Depends on a lot of things.
Armada One has more cohesive design, gimmicks and can raise the shooty part of the turret.
Combiner Wars one has more realistic proportions, actually looks like a tank, better plastic quality, and is actually available.
>>5347155
Blitzwing would've been fine if they did better QC. He's a great toy hindered by their shit QC.
>>5347159
>No waist swivel
>Tank and Jet modes are clusterfucks of purple and gaps and don't even look like actual ones.
>>5347159
If it was just shit QC it would've been fixed by Takara. It's just poor design, full stop. The error is in the tooling.
>>5347133
Can someone explain the Autismo meme? Did people really really hate the CW Leader class G1 Megatron, that they branded him "Autismo"?
>>5347116
Just don't make the alt mode laser into his head.
Take away his most iconic feature and it works perfectly.
>>5347165
The pic is making fun of 3rd Party toys and the weird names they give their stuff (such as Toyworld's "Hardbone")
>>5347170
Then it wouldn't be Scourge.
Is this a good mold?
>>5347116
Let the headmaster plug on top of the altmode.
>>5347178
Are you the anon who asked what a good Tarantulas is from the last thread? IMO, that mold is very meh.
>>5347155
Armada is a brick but goddamn does it look good. Neat H-tank mode, loads of legitimately fun gimmicks, excellent detailing and goddamn that robot mode is to die for.
Unfortunately, it is still a brick, at least from the waist down. Why no 3Ps have made an upgrade for his legs I have no idea- it'd be as simple as replacing the pelvis and thighs, which are only held together with screws anyway.
>>5347207
>Why no 3Ps have made an upgrade for his legs I have no idea
Because its a 14 year old toy?
>>5347116
>titan returns
>reusing headmaster gimmick
>a gimmick universally regarded as being inherently flawed
why in the fuck are we encouraging partsforming?
>>5347233
>partsforming
there's a different between that and combining.
Partsforming is G1 Omega Supreme shit, it isn't fun
>>5347233
Because it is cross-compatible
Stick a different guy's head on the body and get different stats.
I really wonder if they had one particular Megatron in mind more than the other when they made this mold.
>>5347233
It's the monkey's paw for getting new Headmasters.
IE they won't fucking invest the money and tooling unless name characters are now Headmasters.
Of course, the irony is that only a SINGLE new Headmaster is being made (Skullcrusher). Hardhead, Nightbeat and Brainstorm have already received new figures. Brainstorm and Nightbeat just recently last year even!
Worse still: Siren, Horribull, and Squeezeplay are only fucking getting HEAD FIGURES released!!!!! No bodies!
The only fucking redeeming thing is that we are getting a new Galvatron and new Blurr but that's the only thing of value and redemption from this farce.
>>5347262
Bingo.
Why the fuck release heads for Siren, Squeezeplay, and Horribull if you don't intend to make proper figures for them??????
And same for Brainstorm; we just fucking got him! And it's not like he was rare as fuck and they are redoing him from scratch to fix quality isues with the first version.
They did not even TRY and THINK of the logistics for Titan Wars! And now we are all going to suffer and they'll use this to never do Headmasters again!!!
>>5347261
Both I imagine, since the G1 Fusion Cannon is not removable but G1 Megatron still has Minicon pegs.
>>5347011
>Designed by Shogo Hasui
>Fully G1 accurate apart from Mixmasters altmode and Long Haul's robot mode
>god-tier headsculpts
>ankle tilts on everyone, even Devastator
>Gigantic, scales with MPs
Let's face it, Combiner Wars Devastator is a the designers way of getting an MP Devastator to fans, and i love it.
>>5347264
Lets save the bitching for when we know the full scope huh?
>>5347273
Which version?
>>5347135
Push his spinal column as far back as you can, until it touches his dashboard. Then fold the hood down. You should hear a click.
The gun doesn't peg on, it just clips on loosely. Use a tire to hold it in place a little better.
>>5347281
Both but Hasblow decided to cheapen out the American release. I really think that the Takara is the original version and the American was version 2 that was meant to cheapen it cause lets be honest, they plan this shit almost 2 years ahead of the announcement.
>>5347264
Would not be shocked if the return of the Headmaster gimmick was a last minute thing.
By all accounts, Titan Wars was all about shilling the new Titan scale size with the big selling point being the base modes. Also, with freaking Blaster and the updated tapes/PDA legends figures as the chief selling point.
Headmasters were tossed in as an afterthought and it shows.
But yeah; it fucking sucks we are only getting a singe "new" Headmaster update. Looks like we are going to have to pray Takara comes through to fix Hasbro's bullshit and finances new bodies for Siren/Nightbeat/Horribull/Squeezeplay. Should not be THAT hard, since Siren/Nightbeat can use a single body that can be repainted. That just leaves creating two unique molds for Horrribull and Squeezeplay
>T-Tracks-senpai!
>>5347318
It's hard to base Titan scale stuff as a big selling point. Not many people are gonna buy those.
>>5347318
Why not have normal TFs then for the Deluxe and Voyager scale?
Anyone mind doing me a favor? How white is your Generations Metroplex compared to newer figures like Slingshot, Firt-Aid, or Alpha Bravo?
Mine's duller than them.
>>5347333
Almost looks like the white on my Streewise but a tad bit whiter but not as white as my First Aid or Rook since those are just white as hell.
Metroplex is a bit of a cream white.
>>5347273
Plus
>accurate to the scale chart and MP10
>>5347341
Thanks, I was afraid it was starting to yellow or something.
>>5347233
>a gimmick universally regarded as being inherently flawed
Not anymore. With the little headmaster/vehicle two packs, you can easily replace missing heads while giving Hasbro more money.
>>5347342
Do we have this for the S3 Transformers. I really want to see how tall Metroplex/Trypticon is suppose to be compared to the rest of the cast.
>>5347342
You know what that means, right?
Whenever they released Titan Omega Supreme, he'll be MP Scale! and maybe even G1 accurate to go with Devastator
>>5347273
>>Fully G1 accurate
So it alternates between two completely different heads, and every once in a while it looks like fucking garbage?
>>5347353
Yes, the Takara version let's you use either visor or not.
>>5347353
>and every once in a while it looks like fucking garbage?
No, it doesn't have a hidden Bayformer mode.
>>5347363
It does if you take a hammer to it and then slop paint on the resulting pile.
>>5347344
>sell a single toy for less than a year
>trying to say parents will be able to buy replacements
The entire concept of selling replacement parts for toys like that doesn't make sense if you're not going to sell the replacement when the kids might need it.
They can't even handle distribution for combiners properly. We're adults and some of us have problems getting a full set. Imagine if you were a kid and got maybe one toy a month. By the time you could reliably complete a single combiner team, they'd be out of stores and $30+ a pop (like with the Aerialbots right now.)
>>5347363
Bayformers? don't you mean Beast Machines?
>>5347189
Yeah, I just wanted to know about this one. Not a big fan of Transmetal aesthetics.
>>5347375
>talking trash about BM Tankor
>>5347390
Can't knock the Vehicons, but those Maximals..
>tfw this digibash is actually accurate but Hasbro will be taking out the Combiner pegs and making the canopy open so the Headmaster could be put inside.
So, after returning an unassembled MP-08 reissue, my replacement arrived today. He's in one piece, at least, but his robot legs cannot support his weight and his hands can't hold his sword upright. After googling, the most common culprit is loose screws in the hips etc, but I tried to tighten them and they are already screwed in very tight. Is there just a known QC issue with the Takara Grimlock reissue, or have I just been really unlucky?
>>5347410
Plz no.
>>5347412
Yes cause MP-08 is shit also floor polish. This is why I basically just bought the Hasbro release cause I know it would be shit and I actually got one with tight joints lol.
>>5347414
Another anon can confirm this.
>>5347417
>anons confirming anything
>>5347419
Just remember no bitching when they finally officially announce them.
We already warned you guys.
>>5347422
Like how they said star wars was gonna be shit, amirite?
When was the last we WE got anything right that wasn't taken from another website?
>>5347426
Well I'm just saying that I didn't get my info from the net and lets leave it at that.
>>5347442
Cool, my uncle works at Nintendo too.
>>5347442
>lets leave it at that
No, no you're going to explain how that information was obtained.
With more than just screencaps of what another anon may of said.
>>5347426
The first shots of Devastator were be a guy here that was at some event. They were pretty shit ones though since he had to do it from a range because security.
>>5347021
/r/ing Glide Walking.
>>5347323
Looks like a dude in drag instead of a female transformer.
![polaris_a_z__scrounge_by_kingoji-d5clspe[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/PdRCvKf.jpg "polaris_a_z__scrounge_by_kingoji-d5clspe[1].jpg")
>>5347410
>>5347414
>>5347417
It pretty much looks exactly like this in robot mode, but has a much more IDW head. The car's 'cab' for lack of another word, also looks very G1 and can open to put the headmaster in (a result of scrapping the combiner port).
>>5347419
Scrounge is the 6th technobot and becomes a shield for Computron.
Game on.
>>5347323
>>5347410
How do we know the combiner space is large enough? Rumors say the deluxes will be a tad larger than before with a higher price point, and I suspect that was done so they could work with a Headmaster gimmick at a slightly larger scale than our current deluxes.
>>5347471
You're anonymous here. How would they know it was you who showed off the pics?
>>5347484
He would know, also lets face it unless we can mask our IP completely there is no way we are really anonymous.
>>5347484
The combiner space was big enough for a non-transforming head, is it that much of a stretch?
>>5347178
I like spiders so I'm a fan, but it's not that great of a mold. Most of the other early Beast Wars deluxes were better. Frankly we need a Generations Tarantulas that actually looks like a tarantula.
>>5347484
>$20 deluxes
are they fucking crazy
>>5347156
Not to mention articulation is much better.
>Chromedome is a Dead End retool, as they're both carformers and can be modified to have the space to fit a headmaster from their old combiner port
Dead End and Chromedome have completely different looking altmodes and transformation sequences. By the logic people are going by here, there would be no reason for Hardhead to not have been a retool of Brawl. After all, they're both tanks.
>>5347178
I can imagine it being similar to 10th anniversary Waspinator, which I absolutely loved, so I would definately pick it up.
But that's just my personal opinion, it could as well be shit.
>>5347265
>implying both details aren't just a product of them not giving a shit
>>5347533
Actually Deadend and Chromedome's transformations are almost entirely identical save for the chest.
>>5347484
It does look like the deluxes will be slightly larger.
>>5347410
I still think Chromedome will just be a remold of Hardhead.
>>5347261
Obviously the G1. There's literally nothing in the toy from the Armada design other than the head. They probably just noticed how the treads could fold up and kinda sorta looked like the Armada one and figured why not. Which is a shame because the Armada design is fucking rad and deserves a proper update..
>>5347563
Well there's always this guy, but they should have made him like this in the first place.
>>5347569
Paint the mold any way you like but it still doesn't have any of the design cues or aesthetic of the armada one.
>>5347575
Because Armada is dead. Wait 10 years for the remade anime guys by guys with boner for it like how the earlier Classics guys were full of bullshit like anorexic Mirage and Sunsteaker just being a yellow Sideswipe.
>>5347556
Number one, so many people would complain about Chromdome being a remold
Number two, him and Hardhead are friends, it would suck if they were very similar to one another
Also, how'd you remold a tank into a car?
>>5347580
>Sunsteaker just being a yellow Sideswipe
Come ON. dont pretend like they were just repaints of each other.
the torso design was fucking intuitive
>>5347636
Sunsteaker didn't even have his signature feet
>>5347533
Right on. And Highbrow will be another Alpha Bravo.
You know, altogether CW is actually a pretty good effort and is decent fun to play with. FoC showed us that combiners could be way worse.
Except I need a goddamn Quickslinger!
>>5347690
>You know, altogether CW is actually a pretty good effort and is decent fun to play with. FoC showed us that combiners could be way worse.
THIS
>>5347690
Honestly, I love the CW stuff. It's got it's few problems, but honestly, these are probably the best combiners in a long time, including 3rd party stuff. They're fairly solid, they're big, they have good poseability. The individual bots are good.
Really, the only issues are usually aesthetics (Blastoff being a jet, CW Silverbolt/Superion's colors not being exact VS the UW version which is colored properly). Even the worst of the lot (Menasor with his pre-fix hips and heavy-ass top) are still worlds better than a lot of other things out there, and serve only as a minor damper to an otherwise great figure. The 3rd party stuff brings them to pure perfection to boot, if you want to take the extra step for them. And even if you don't they're still great by default, and at a much better price point than any of the 3rd party shit with it's ridiculous per figure prices.
>>5347690
>Defensor is bowlegged with back cannons
>Superion has fucking Prowl as an arm, a back cannaon, and mismatched hands
>Meansor using Shockwave as a gun
>Those static as fuck poses
Why am I so triggered by this? Do I have a touch of the 'tism, or is this just a shit job at posing and combining those figures?
>>5347735
They're staticly posed because theyre there for me to fiddle with and want them in their most stable poses when I'm not. The rest is your autism.
>>5347291
Nope, there's a picture of an early prototype of Devastator in a special feature of this year's volume of Generations and Scrapper had Hasbro arms even back during the undetailed grey resin stage
>>5347735
Whats wrong with back cannons? I do that on my Defensor as well, since I use Powerglide for his gun, as he makes a much 'meatier' gun.
/tfg/, what's your dream Transformer?
Hard mode: it can't be an existing character
>>5347793
More non-organic beastformers, like the predacons. I want robotic animals.
>>5347793
CW Predaking. Even though it'll probably never be a reality and I'll have to try to somehow get a 3rd party one despite them being retardedly expensive for no good reason.
>mfw looking at Feral Rex's prices
>>5347282
I thought you were messing with me. It actually worked.
>>5347793
More bots that are like something out of the Brave series, with lots of cool methods of combining- Symmetrical Docking, for example, and more "one bot becomes power armor for another", rather than typical "bot forms one of the limbs to a bigger bot" deal that Transformers tend to do.
Can't go wrong with more boat or trainformers, either!
>>5347793
Dragon/Aircraft carrier triple-changer headmaster femmebot which is at least a Leader class.
Will they ever give us a Masterpiece Tank Megs?
>>5347863
Not unless they decide to do full on G2 stuff.
>>5347883
Don't have to worry about megatron being shorter since the scale, even the one shown, never mattered because the animators were awful at consistency.
>>5347832
I hereby dub her "War-torn". And her headmaster would be Stormwrack. In carrier mode, her headbot would become the Control Tower with some careful panel flipping.
>>5347785
>low production runs = more expensive
>retardedly expensive for no good reason
I don't think you understand how this works.
>>5347920
Wrong post, bucko.
>>5347793
Easy Mode: Masterpiece Kup
Hard Mode: A combiner with every part being a -master, Head, Target, Power, Breast, Feet, Fistmasters. No partsforming.
>>5347893
Nice. I like the headmaster becoming a part of the alt mode idea. Or if we're thinking aircraft carrier, if it just turned into a simple little plane a la tidal wave's minicon that would work too.
>>5347822
No prob. Hound's one of my favorites, but that's also character bias speaking. Though character bias is why he's so G1: the designer of him was also a big fan so he called dibs when it was time to make a new Hound.
>>5347928
i thought of making the headmaster a jet(or combining with a jet body), but I worried about the feasability of a triple-changing headmaster head, but i guess at leader class it would be possible.
Do it like the Titan Wars guys, and make her a normal headmaster head size, but with a helmet that forms around her and bulks her out, but the helmet becomes the body of the jet.
In dragon mode the helmet can fit over her dragon-mode head.
Of course, all this just makes me want a leader class update to Broadside.
I got 3/4 Combatacon limbs. One is Brawl and i have decided i'd rather have him keep his waist joint and look odd then do the fix and lose it. YMMV, and when i get Swindle, he's totally getting a bolo tie.
>>5347926
>fist master
>>5347926
>>5347978
>Foot master
>>5347467
DADDY?!
>>5347035
heere ya go!
>>5348000
>>5348001
>>5348001
lewd...
>>5348007
> " I'll rip out your optics!"
>>5347920
>low print runs means something should cost over $500
No, thats not how things work. They could certainly price it much, much cheaper. They won't, however, for one simple reason: They know they're pandering to collectors. They know collectors will shell out any insane price as long as they can appeal to them.
>>5348005
I was interested in that megs till you showed how small he is with that cyberverse weapon. Bummer. His faces look amazing.
>>5347947
It's not like the fixes are permanent or anything (unless you do that ridiculous hackjob someone did, cutting massive sections off Brawl), so you can easily display it how you like.
I can't wait for my Combaticons. Hopefully they'll be here by Monday, but I've yet to find a good price on an Onslaught's. Soon though, soon...
>>5348052
If you were maybe talking about a lithograph or other simple print, maybe.
Toys are fucking expensive to produce. Injection molds for plastics are the most costly component, with costs skyrocketing for the complexity of what are usually MP analagous figures with high parts-counts.
I'm not saying that some of the costs aren't due to catering to a collector's market, but there's no way they could offer anything close to the prices that an international mass-market production company like hasbro can on figures and even break even, much less succeed as a business.
>>5348074
I'm not saying those figures are going to be $15 or $20 for the larger types, but I am definitely saying a roughly Deluxe to Voyager sized figure wouldn't be over $50-70. None of this $100-130 shit they're pulling. And when you get ridiculous shit like Legends scale figures ranging in the $30+ range per figure (and often having the same structure of regular Hasbro Legend's figures), you know they're just gouging like a motherfucker.
>>5347021
What are these?
>>5348090
You're crazy.
Hell, for voyager sized MPs like the car bots, fucking Takara charges $50 each, and they move a hell of alot more units than most 3p companies.
The legends are sitting at basically double the price of the Has/Tak ones, which is about right.
I mean, yeah, they could probably drop thier prices by like 10-15% and still technically turn a profit, but yeah, i don't feel like they're anywhere near as inflated as you seem to think they are.
>>5347754
That's neat. It really feels like it was more an ambitious design reined in, rather than a simpler one modified further. Things like the shoulders ratcheting on UW Dev compared to smooth on Hasbro, to the tread-leggers having hinge joints and thigh swivels in Japan compared to ball jointed knees in America.
That said, there's still tons of parts between both releases. Like how Scrapper and Mixmaster both have a dedicated joint in their torsos just so Devastator can get ankle tilts.
>>5348091
kotobukiya model kits, pre-painted with stickers for detail.
Some smaller parts will need paint but the main portions of the kit are just about right, its still like the mini truck to represent optimus prime as a truck that will.
head to dalong.net in the kotobukiya section, they made the seekers (thundercracker and skywarp are a 2 pack) nemesis prime as well.
Yes its in korean but shit is so easy to navigate with english buttons for some pages (but not for his reviews sadly)
>>5348095
Even a cut of 10-20% would make most of them a Hell of a lot more reasonable. Especially for anything combiner related. Or even just sets sold with a discount for buying the whole thing at once.
>>5348099
... but the combiners do sell cheaper as a set if you get them in a timely fashion...
The OLDER out of print sets are way more expenstive, but that's the same for any collector based hobby.
The thing to remember is that most 3ps have a staggered release so that you can buy in the individual pieces over time rather than shelling out all at once, but once the full set is released nearly every major retailer like tfsource, bbts, etc will run a deal for the combined set that saves a decent chunk of change.
>>5348117
Has there been a set deal anywhere for the MMC Feral Rex by any chance?
>>5347793
Liege Maximo. He'd basically be a shell-former because his alt-mode shell would become his throne (with guns), or battle armor with a cape. The inside of shells will be all evil organic machinery. His Alt-Mode would most likely be a jet.
>>5347133
These Autismo off-shoots and remixes would be funnier with 19.99$ (dollar sign at the end like the original). Part of what makes the original amusing is that autists and aspbergs would probably have a fit about the dollar sign being in the wrong place.
>>5347793
Masterpiece Shockwave
Wait, what? OH FUUUUUU
>>5347793
A combiner that assimilates vehicles and cybertronians into it's mass, It'd have a non-standard design, and I imagine it moving like a wave.
>>5348173
This sounds like the clusterfuck collection of everyone on /toy/
>>5348175
Now there's a idea, A combiner composed only of humans, where their organs and skin are rearranged for the gestalt to function properly. I'd imagine it's a one way trip.
>>5348177
But the blob movie came out years ago, we don't need another fat mass of people floating around.
Last thing a blob monster would need is autism
>>5348178
The blob was a simple goo, this would be a fucked up solid hybrid.
>>5347735
>whynotboth?.jpg
How'd I do?
>walk into department store seeing if the latest CW have arrived in Australia
>despite other lesser states having them already we had jackshit
>have a gander in the star wars section and see this
>"Oh, doesn't really look like either mode but I like it"
>Ring up price at register
>$3.74aud
>some promo that wasn't advertised came up
The card is a bit fucked up but tell me, is there any worth to this, both as a toy and to a collector, otherwise he goes into the legends draw
>>5348184
The small ones are some of the better Star Wars crossovers, but they are still kinda disappointing. Obi-wan for example, has nice proportions and a fantastic face sculpt but he's pretty much a shell-former and is back heavy.
>>5347793
Animated season 4 megatron. :(
>>5348188
The bigger ones tend to have ugly robot modes with unsatisfying transformations.
They were really fucking themselves because each SW crossover toy had to do the following
>Represent a well-known vehicle
>Represent a well-known character
>Include a cockpit to insert a mini-figure
Later releases that omitted the cockpit gimmick, like Commander Cody and these small ones, turned out to be generally better.
Despite that, there's still one thing going for the line though---they are actually quite detailed representations of the vehicles.
>>5348190
I see, cheers.
Guess no vader for me
>>5348192
Yeah if you are talking about this one i have it. It would be fun if his arms were not always falling off. The pegs that hold his arms on are so weak and the hinge his head is on sucks and his head falls off during transformation.
>>5348198
>head falls off
God damn it I'm used to parts falling off but fucking heads?
Yep not even going to go near that thing now, again many thanks
>>5348200
No prob.
>>5347998
You yourself said he didn't transform into anything. Plus it makes no fucking sense to say you had a father. Or that he was a wheel. If he was a wheel who didn't transform, where the fuck did you come from?
Your lines were a goddamned disgrace, and a pox on whoever wrote them.
>>5348190
Cody still had a cockpit, actually. But he was one of the better in the line regardless.
>>5347632
>Also, how'd you remold a tank into a car?
I'm sure it could be done somehow, especially since both modes have arms sticking out to the sides.
But I would much rather prefer a completely original mold of course.
Not mine but I did want to do a shot like this.
Least now I don't need to dig out my dusty hasbro metroplex when a superior takara is out
>>5348198
>Kill....me....
>>5348237
where did you get those action chain bases? koto ones have been sold out for ever. Is there someone making KOs for a reasonable price?
![1449902273_uw04_yuki01[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/krHONIw.jpg "1449902273_uw04_yuki01[1].jpg")
>>5348237
Anon, unpeg those arms from Mixmaster and bend his elbows.
It frees up Devastator's other ankle tilt.
>>5347109
Simple: The sticker is not supposed to be on Waspinator's box. It should be on Chromia's, since her stock photo shows her holding Arcee's short gun along with her own.
>>5348190
I think the SW TF line is a cool idea in concept, not in execution. It would have been far more interesting and buyable if it had been well known TF characters as SW Vehicles. Like Optimus as the Falcon, Starscream as a TIE Bomber, Superion being a group of X-Wings. Things like that.
>>5348253
Um...I did say it wasn't mine and I remember that image but thank you for trying to help, when mine comes in the mail I'll remember to refer to it
>>5348256
the falcon is fucking stupid and boring as a toy, the only interesting toy ever made of a falcon is the micromachines fold out playset and lego building set because lego is always interesting
>>5347802
Suck it up and buy him, he's the only decent one atm and most people aren't trying to unseat him.
>>5347011
He had a cool gimmick with the turret being an underslung cannon, but Scorponok homage color scheme and played down beetle them was kinda lame.
At least he used those horns once at the end of the show..
>>5348279
he used them on starscream a lot
>>5348287
Beating up Starscream never counts regardless of continuity.
>>5348266
Sorry, it was 6 in the morning and I haven't slept yet.
>>5348277
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say sooner rather than later. Whether its complete crap or not will remain to be seen.
I could see Razorclaw being a (heavy) redeco of Skylynx/Silverbolt so they can milk that as much as possible. Its the other Predacons that would weigh the design down as they don't have easy redecos to produce atm unlike the car and truckbots.
Then once those are done they'll repurpose those into the Terrorcons and etc.
The downside is this means we'll get a Predaking who skips leg day and no one will make a good turd party upgrade kit to beef out those pitiful legs, just like Superion, Grand Galvatron and now Skylynx.
>>5348277
If you don't mind it being a hollow piece of shit.
>>5348293
Shit man get some sleep, you might hurt yourself or a harmless bot
>>5348298
>>5348300
A most likely scenario for both.
Bah all cw's are hollow to an extent apart from...wait no even dev's has some behind that chest plate
>>5348304
I don't really mind as much, I just wish they hadn't put stick legs on Superion and then decide to reuse the mold. Twice. And probably more in the future.
At least Optimus/Motormaster has some beef and decent upgrade kits to hide its problems. Hotspot is.. okay too I guess, the no waist swivel and thin rectangle limbs can be glaring at the wrong angles.
>>5348305
I think superion's head and chest pull me away from those stick thighs of his, out of my gestalts he stands out the most and that isn't just because he's the UW version.
I think they used 2 of the 3 body types well, galvatronus looks good though cyclonus is bit original on the design front and if they just fixed up scattershot's chest and gestalt mode colors a bit he'd be pretty dandy, new head in combined mode would be sweet too.
And defensor/bruticus was just perfect personally, infact the CW defensor swayed me over from the UW in the end because of the sticker deco.
Its the "truck form" that annoys me, like my food I like my toys to be "as intended", so while those expensive 3rd party kits look good I honestly feel I shouldn't go out of my way to fix them, that said I have UW menasor and a CW optimus maximus as well, glutton for punishment I guess.
Excuse the lack of posing, Laptop sits infront of him at night and damn powerglide adds alot of weight acting as a weapon add on rather than a stand alone, part of my rotating display where shit gets shuffled every few months
http://ww4.sinaimg.cn/bmiddle/8f7f7267jw1ez5e3fce74g207s07i1l3.gif
For anyone who cares about mp ironhide and his transformation, this gif shows how it completely works
>gif is over 4mb
God fucking damnit
>>5348332
That's actually pretty impressive.
Where do you guys purchase your transformers online?
>>5348346
Amazon for hasbro stuff amiami for takara stuff.
>>5348346
For takara stuff amiami or hlj.
For hasbro stuff I use local ebay dealers, compare prices, then bulk order so the shipping isn't so painful as opposed to $9aud for one legends class.
For online exclusives/second hand its mandarake or premiumcollectables.com.au, I mean shit mp11NR ramjet for $200 is crazy, let alone $150 for takara's galvatronus.
Obviously mandarake when I have the itch for an older toy, I want my chug henkei seekers!
In the hypothetical situation that I stumbled upon the deluxe combaticons today, and could only pick up one, which one should I choose?
If it matters, my CW collection includes:
>complete hasbro superion + slingshot
>complete hasbro menasor + wildrider
>hotspot
>ironhide
>prowl
>>5348367
Swindle because he's based on the rook mold and we all liked rook+swindle's awesome.
He's a heavy retool of a great mold unlike take off (redeco), vortex (redeco that actually works) or brawl (shitty waist section).
>>5348370
Does he have 5mm ports on the side of his forearms? I wanna give one my Animated Swindle's cannon if so.
RIP Animated Swindle. Now I know why clear plastic on joints is bad...
We keep shitting on hasbro's g2 bruticus because it has g1 symbols, but have we...actually looked at the figure?
I don't see any, all I've found is one on blast off (which is a good point to argue with but is an entirely different matter)
>>5348392
Pretty much the same as what rook has so you have a shoulder port.
No idea the size, never payed attention to those, I often use stickytack to make things work when I'm autistic enough
>>5348397
>shoulder port
Eh, close enough.
>>5348397
Why did "Staying Alive" by the BeeGees start playing in my head when I opened that pic....
>>5348412
Combiner wars Baldigus when?
>>5348440
I can only see it as a funpub thing
anyone tried making some super gun out of Shockwave and the Combatacon's guns?
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/review-of-changes-and-upgrades-in-takaras-transformers-unite-warriors-devastator-uw-04/34421/
Based takara
>>5348475
'Tis true. Got mine yesterday. Heavens to murgatroyd, he's a big guy for me. Someone else said it before, but you truly don't appreciate his size until you have him in hand.
>>5348520
>you truly don't appreciate his size until you have him in hand.
this. Unicron was my biggest guy, but Devastator's even bigger than him!
>>5348475
THANKS FOR BETA TESTING HASBROFAGS
>>5348256
>Starscream
>TIE Bomber
>Not an Interceptor
>>5347785
is Shockwave light enough to be held and aimed by a combiner?
a both Third Party rifles I own scaled to combiner proportions, Menasor and Superion can't hold them up worth a damn.
>>5348576
Not at all.
>>5348573
Interceptor would work but you also have to consider how it would transform. Bomber has all that extra mass that can be used to make a decent robot mode.
Walmart had the all the Combaticon limbs, amazingly. Now I just got to find an Onslaught. Since he's getting repackef in the Sky Lynx wave he'll be easy to find soon-ish.
>>5348595
I tried looking in TRU but no luck, I just decided to say fuck it and bought all the limbs on ebay. 110 for the 5 bots + shockwave. Not bad.
>>5348576
Shockwave was meant for that exact thing.
>>5348599
Considering TRU has the deluxes at $20 a piece you made a smart move.
>>5348520
I kept telling this to everybody for the past 20+ threads since the toy came out and since I've seen it in person.
>>5348547
I own the SDCC version myself and I'm completely fine with no elbows since I don't really take them apart and since I do work for a dealer he offered me the Takara version for $240 Canadian or for like 2~3 days of work next convention so yeah I will end up owning 2 Devastators lol.
>>5348475
>http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/review-of-changes-and-upgrades-in-takaras-transformers-unite-warriors-devastator-uw-04/34421/
I thought the only changes were the elbows, Devastator's head and paint apps, but this is way better than I expected.
>>5348617
But you really cant understand the size with just people talking.
Hasbro should've made a window for the packaging at retail.
>>5348609
Indeed. Now to wait for the upgrade kit to give him better feet and hands.
>>5348625
kek. Like they'd have sprung for that packaging option.
>>5348627
>holding hands
What did IDW do now?
>>5348627
>dat pose
>>5348642
At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if there was Gestalt lust. A combiner finding an affection for another combiner.
>>5348642
Get your mind out of the gutter. It's obviously a Super Robot Handshake of TEAMWORK.
>>5348648
Do you fucking know how to shake hands? Because that looks like a Super Robot expression of affection.
>>5348625
You do know the SDCC version is windowed right?
>>5348650
Who killed his wife?
>>5348649
I think the pose is inspired by this bit of art. I think.
Does anyone here own both the new Chop Shop and the Hasbro version of the Targetmaster that came with Megatron? I only have the Takara version, which is full-on brown to match the G1 toy. I was wondering how well the colors match with the other version.
Also, I wish the lazy fucks had remolded his pincers. It's a good likeness as-is, but changing the pincers would have made it perfect. It's not like they're part of the transformation or anything.
>>5348652
I'm guessing English is not your first language?
win·dowed
ˈwindōd/
adjective
adjective: windowed
1.
having a window or windows for admitting light or air.
"a row of bay-windowed houses"
2.
Computing
having or using framed areas on a display screen for viewing information.
>>5348650
And I said RETAIL.
>>5348659
The retail has that picture at the back that "shows" the actual size of the thing. But yeah I digress, you really need to see it in person to enjoy it.
>>5348627
What is this upgrade even called?
>>5348654
The fuck is going on in this picture? Please tell me this isn't canon.
>>5348662
Perfect Effect Perfect Combiner PC-07 I think.
>>5348654
That is a handshake.
Compare this with the yaoi pose up there.
>>5348664
no fucking shit it's not canon, how would it be?
It's to show the interchangeability of scramble city toys
>>5348668
Meh. I see what you mean but it looks more like the result of shitty posing than actual intentionall yaoi baiting.
>>5348664
>The fuck is going on in this picture? Please tell me this isn't in-continuity.
Fixed.
>>5348674
>being this pedantic
You must be one of those wiki autists.
![IMG_20151216_165709822_zpstzulzpsk[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/zwSTmLa.jpg "IMG_20151216_165709822_zpstzulzpsk[1].jpg")
>>5348620
They also forgot to mention that UW Scrapper's hands are retooled, so they're better heel spurs for Devastator.
Not my picture.
>>5348677
>This mad
Guess you didn't like your language teacher in school much.
>>5348655
Gang's all here.
I don't have a pic of it, but little chop fits nicely between the legs on the legends' back and looks pretty cool. Works best if you put his arms up.
>>5348686
Depends which year, but that's besides the point.
>>5348692
No vintage Chop, 4/10, best I can Shop.
>>5348692
Damn, I'm gonna have to hunt down the little guy. Color-coordinated Targetmasters are my kryptonite.
>>5348661
That still doesn't do it justice. Its just another picture.
![beast_wars_megatron_by_espeng[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/fiHhMO1.jpg "beast_wars_megatron_by_espeng[1].jpg")
>>5347011
I understand your point but I do not agree with it.
>>5348682
That's fucking great, I love how the hasbro apologists were going on about how the hasbro version was more stable, now they don't even have that. It really is inferior in every regard except in sucking.
>>5347793
Inferno from beast wars.
>>5348576
Yup
>>5348712
I think it was more people were worried it might not be as stable.
>>5347793
Triplechanger junkion that is a hydrofoil & garbage truck. His name is Trashboat.
>>5348186
>and we shall call him...Obot Wan Kenobot
