Old thread>>5560742
>>5562539
Wow for once you actually posted the link to the old thread.
>Thunderhoof
>Voiced by Frank Stallone
>Sylvester Stallone's brother
wot
>>5562548
>> hey yo
>>5562475
lol.
>>5561798
>>headmasters on non headmaster characters
>who fucking thought this was a good idea? I miss the CHUG line when it didn't force gimmick shit on every character.
I know right?? on that note, I cant believe Hasbro announced these Targetmaster remolds of old characters. it literally makes no sense, they're just trying to scam us by selling the same toy twice! ooh this really grinds my gears..
>>5562547
perhaps you should stop crying about this, on the grounds that no one gives a shit?
>>5562548
sideswipe any good?
>>5562566
Shoulder/chest assembly doesn't lock in robot mode.
>>5562564
not 1:1.
>>5562564
I don't think these situations fit at all.
>>5562564
>giving someone a gun robot is the same as chopping off his head and turning it into a robot
HasTak Internet Defense Force hard at work. Did you get banned from TFW?
>>5562580
Why do you think everyone is from TFW? I thought they hated Hasbro.
>>5562582
Everyone hates hasbro.
Everyone is from TFW.
Help me out /toy/. Just started collecting last year and I still don't have an Optimus in my collection. What's the best one I can get for under $30?
>>5562582
TFW is probably the biggest so they're statistically more likely.
TFW only hates Hasbro now because they aren't getting favoritism from Aaron Archer anymore. Same deal with FunPub; best friends until they settled on Seibertron. It's amazing how petty this fandom can be.
>>5562608
If you can find him, any iteration of Classics Optimus Prime. Nice vehicle mode, great robot mode, loads of upgrades available.
If you're willing to pay more, RID 2001 Prime/Fire Convoy and Cybertron Prime/Galaxy Convoy are great too.
>>5562609
OMG!
Who would have thought that this fandom full of adult men arguing over plastic toy robots can be so petty?
>>5562609
You do know that funpub partnered with seibertron after a falling out with Walky just to fuck with him and his allspark buddies, right?
Then, Walky and some allsparkers went behind the scenes and badmouthed funpub so much that hasbro finally dropped them?
So yeah, petty is an understatement.
>>5562582
TFW is anti-negativity. Happiness is mandatory.
>>5562622
Really? Fas'nating. Though one would think with all the bs Funpub has done over the years, Hasbro would have dropped them sooner rather than when the fandom king badmouths them.
>>5562609
its comprised of manchildren and nonbinary tumblrs, I expect the same thing will happen to Bionicle
>>5561809
>>5561815
>Jim "Supremely Based" Sorenson's contributions to TF fiction:
Canonized Gobots as Transformers, canonized Diaclones and Microman as Transformers, detailed the Combatibots (the best Autobot combiner, just the best), gave us a bio of Megazarak's Mini-con, canonized T H I C K fembots
>David "Weepy SJW" Willis' contributions to TF fiction:
Like two pages of Shattered Garbage, the B^U -tier Recordicons, terrible memes (le skywarp pushes peoplle down le stairs XD ), turning Howlback into a tranny then patting himself on the back for it and making his wiki cronies fawn over it
>>5562633
it was a lot cuter when Japan turned nightscream into a crossdresser
>>5562582
>tfw never visited TFW
What is that place?
>>5562644
http://tfw2005.com/
General Discussion and Comic Discussion are the places with the most autism, although the Toy forum has some nice nuggets if you're willing to sift through it.
>>5562639
This is a bat (male) and bird (male)
>>5562658
News and Rumors is gold too. There is always someone giving their opinion of something, and no more than mere minutes later they get attacked by the defense force.
>>5562630
>I expect the same thing will happen to Bionicle
It's already started to happen, a large amount of the users on BZPower are autists or SJWs
>>5562629
Walky and the allsparker's shit did not cause the final split, but it just added to the fire.
>>5562692
It may be the only thing wiigii ever contributed to the fandom.
Also an indictment of how Hasbro operates that years and years of obvious incompetence did nothing but some petty butthurt from an internet clique tipped the scales.
>>5562692
Didn't Walky and his crew also scam a ton of people with that BMOG shit too?
>>5562711
that mugenbine knock off? lol
>>5562711
Heard about this.
Mention this on the allspark and you get btfo.
Lots of people did not get their orders and Walky blamed them supposedly.
>>5562703
Walky vs Funpub
Whoever wins we lose
>>5562609
>>5562622
>>5562629
I dunno a lot of 2005'ers started hating FunPub when they started fucking up on a regular basis.
I wish FunPub and Pete would learn to actually take criticism and actually stop blaming others than themselves.
>>5562785
Forgot to add that the guy also releases albums.
>>5562633
Who are the Combatibots?
>>5562539
So how big are these new headmasters?
We came to the conclusion in the last thread that the TR cassettes are an absolute goldmine for making customs of any altmode of that general shape.
>table
>vending machine
>fridge
Any other ideas?
>>5562807
What is Google
>>5562817
>ABSOLUTE GOLDMINE
>can't think of more than 3 things
>only 1 of those things could actually work
>>5562817
Monoliths
Doors
Dominoes
Books
>>5562822
A miserable pile of secrets!
But enough of this!
HAVE AT YOU!
>>5562769
Funpub has done everything to make everyone hate them.
Only Walky and his circlejerk love them because Walky could insert his shitty ideas into canon. SG Ravage? Shit. SG Ratbat is Batman? Yeah. Shit.
>>5562832
Im Batman
>>5562807
As it turns out, they are nothing at all.
>>5562608
CW Prime should still be below $30, I think. I like him a lot, but he's got some big-ass arms and meaty fists.
>>5562627
TFW has never been like that, its always been a pit of incomprehensible rage. allspark's always been the more outwardly civil one because criticism is patronized and the member count is lower.
hasbro australia is teasing us again
>>5562859
>this is astrotrain's headmaster
I-I'm god damn outraged, but is it the lack of color or the fact its sentinal prime's guy again!?
>>5562861
AND here is the cg of the full figure in all of his...glory.
Why can't they stick to the real images, they fuck up cg shots as much as bad posing
>>5562832
Walky has long since split from Funpub due to whatever nebulous reasons he has and was making fun on fP even when he was employed by them. Ever since the "Obsidian and Strika commit a war crime" incident.
>>5562862
More shuttle anyone?
>>5562865
...ya know the front of the train actually looks like an old diesel engine.
>>5562865
Yes..
YESSSS!!!
>>5562868
Dunno why but they gave us ravage too
>>5562884
I'll wait for the one that isn't a head master.
>>5562548
WHERE'S FRANK STALLONE?!!
>>5562812
>>5562884
Yeah, like the toy or not, it's in dire need of paint.
>>5562785
>>5562788
I want more Thunderhoof now.
>>5562871
>in Hand pictures show Ravage with new head
>CGI promo shot is a straight up digibash
I don't know what I expected.
>>5562861
>outraged
You need help if a toy does this to you.
>>5562888
Hopefully Takara or Hasbro Asia will make him a not!Headmaster.
>>5562974
But takara is still using the headmaster gimmick for their version of the line as well.
>>5562977
But what would any political discussion have to do with Transformers? There's no reason for that.
>>5562991
Cool. What's the second head?
>>5562991
Fine I'll give you the attention that you want. What the fuck are these?
>>5563010
Looks like casts of CW heads done so they can have light piping.
>>5563007
Same with the allspark and discussions of a tranny's cum but guess what they talk about over there
>>5562977
>socialist
another moron who doesn't know what that word means.
And why is "wanting to take care of American citizens" seen as such a bad thing, anyway?
But go on and vote Trump, it'll be funny watching him wreck the economy and start wars because he didn't get his way. He's a spoiled manchild- just like anyone who supports him.
>>5563061
>Carl pls
Fuck off to /pol/ though before this turns into a shitstorm like the Kiss Players thread did.
>>5562492
It was a giant snake/subway train named Vertebreak that took other people's bodies for some reason.
>>5563061
define citizen
>>5562862
>Why can't they stick to the real images
because then they cant fuck up the transformations
>>5562868
it looks like a Metal Slug boss, i love it!
>>5562977
>>5562940
Same thing happened to Rumble/Frenzy/Whatever we're calling the red one. He was a recolor of Rewind, but he ended up having his own head for showfloor stuff.
>>5563088
>Blast Off
i think thats first aid. the second one almost looks like Twin Twist
>>5563085
>Astrotrain is a Metal Slug Boss
>Animated Blitzwing is a Metal Slug
>>5563121
theres actually a third party transformers that becomes a metal slug~ his name is Commotus
Honestly Astro Train reminds me of the train from Contra Shattered Soldier, it even has the same turrets
>>5562861
"Paint apps? What are we, Mattel?"
- John Warden
>>5562977
Smitty was banned long before that though. Sad thing is he's back on TFW.
>patiently waiting for him and C16 to start again
>>5562861
I highly doubt that's final. Remember, Rumble's CG model has Rewind's head. It's just a color mockup if anything.
months later and the way they dropped the ball on this still pisses me off. It's going for Japanese MP Starscream prices now.
Of course the one time they make an MP with better QC than takara they fuck it up by making it a flash in the pan.
>>5562861
Honestly, I don't care what the headmaster 'bots look like, because they're both small AND going to either be sitting inside that colored cockpit all the TR HM's are going to have, or be functioning as a head.
>>5563074
>subway train tf
Holy crap that's awesome
>>5563079
I don't own Scourge what's fucked here? The shoulders?
>>5563147
>subway transformer
Can you imagine how fucking mad they'd be to be delegated to that alt form?
"I reek of bum piss and crackhead shit." sums up their entire life, more or less.
>>5563150
Shoulders and his legs aren't pulled out the whole way.
>>5563147
He was voiced by the guy who did Wonder-Red in Wonderful 101.
>>5563150
And shrunken legs.
>>5563146
I feel the same way about people who complain that they are now headmasters. Its a new gimmick, but it's not gimmick that really affects anything at all on the figure. Yeah you could lose it, but that goes even for typical body parts on transformers. Just don't be a fool with them.
>>5563181
Yeah. I mean, I can buy the story a child is going to lose the head, because kids lose fucking everything. It's inevitable. I still have a few of my original Headmasters with their heads, but I still was missing fucking Cerebro for FM, and Zarak for Scorponok.
But for an adult collector like (what I assume) is everyone here? They're gonna go right in the cockpits/headmounts when you're done messing with them, you shouldn't be losing anything.
>>5563142
Try living in Canada, it's even worse here. I haven't physically seen a Masterpiece in TRU since 2006 or whenever MP01 was first released. In fact the only MP I managed to find locally was Skywarp- the sole release that wasn't a Toys'R'Us exclusive. I fucking hate that store, man.
>>5563162
and Kevin Levin in Ben 10 (original series).
>>5563181
At least this time they also released separate heads that kids could buy for replacement, which was really needed since kids are bound to lose them all the time.
>>5562622
>implying Walky is a important enough for Hasbro to notice even an iota
>>5562817
Paint a fridge on one side and a vending machine on the other! QUADCHANGER
>>5562974
Too bad the train mode is still a train wreck.
>>5563286
We had the same idea Anon. Forgot the text, oops
>>5563259
HasbroToyShop's ebay page, as of typing this, has
>All the combaticon limbs
>Silverbolt
>Motormaster, Dead End and Blackjack
>Three of four Protectobot limbs, missing Rook.
>All six members of OP Max
>G2 Superion boxed set
>Cyclonus/Galvatronus (he has no team of his own, so this is the best torso for a mix and match Decepticon combiner if you care about story.)
>Several CW legends figures, including Buzzsaw if you want an early jump into Titans Return.
>>5563297
Addendum from same anon: Right now they're doing free shipping on basically all items, including the G2 Superion set.
>>5563181
>but it's not gimmick that really affects anything at all on the figure
How about the headsculpts automatically being shittier because they have to transform?
Look at Blurr or Scourge's overly blocky heads or Galvatron's sunken in face with the shitty helmet and tell me again that they don't affect the look of the toy.
>>5563301
Anon looking into CW figures here. How long does the free shipping last?
>>5563305
Eh, I was trying to have some fun. Didn't expect it to go over too well anyway. No worries.
>>5563315
I don't have a problem with them. Obviously a lot of people don't.
What I'm talking about is gimmicks like what Armada had that ruined so many potientially good figures.
This is obviously not that.
>>5563316
The eBay shop is almost always free shipping. The HasbroToyShop WEBSITE has free shipping over 50 dollars but often has discounts, as it does right now, and may have different things in stock compared to their eBay page.
>>5563316
Their eBay page usually is free shipping.
They actual HTS website has free shipping and 20% off right now.
>>5563259
I would recommend looking into the UW sets for some of them as well, if you're concerned about having the original G1 members. Depending where you look, it might be cheaper to get those than to get the scalped to fuck and back US versions of some limb bots like Quickslinger (Slingshot) or Brakeneck (Wildrider).
>>5563351
If you're looking at Japanese releases, sites like HLJ or AmiAmi might be worthwhile to check out. I've heard some good things about Robot Kingdom as well.
>>5563324
Definitely.
A lot of the figures had brick legs even if it wasn't at all unreasonable to give them some fucking hip and knee articulation since there'd be nothing causing movement issues there.
Headmasters as they're being done now, don't get in the way nearly as much as long as the cockpits don't try to be solid pieces.
>>5563351
I usually shop for Transformers on eBay, Amazon, and Big Bad Toy Store. I can usually find a decent price on things between the 3, and if I can't, well, then I just wait until I can.
The UW sets might also be cheaper if you browse some import sites like uh...Shit I know Anon's here know.
>>5563259
>AAAAAAAMMMMMAAAAAZZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNN
>>5563351
For the sake of completing sets HTS isn't stocked for, BBTS and TFSource both have a lot of wave assortment cases left.
BBTS also lists pretty much every UW boxed set as being in stock, as well as G2 Menasor.
>>5563324
>This is obviously not that.
Yes it is. Headsculpts getting fucking neutered just for more partsforming ruins the figure.
Whats taking Hasbro so long to release MP Bumblebee and Wheeljack over here?
They are going to, right?
>>5563259
I have a CW Defensor I'm looking to sell, email me, [email protected]
>>5563388
>Neutered
>All the same articulation
>play value of a driver to go with the vehicle
>only price is a block on the back that's easily ignored because it's color-matched to the figure's color scheme
>>5563388
>saying the new headmaster gimmick is the same thing as the abominations we got from the Unicron trilogy that were actually ruined by their gimmicks
Got a genius over here.
>>5563189
I kind of feel like an outlier, I never really lost any piece of from any of my toys. I always made sure to either keep in boxes the small parts so I could attack them to the figure later, or have other figures hold the parts so I wouldn't lose them.
So what toys do you guys use as Wreckers? I feel like dotm Skyhammer works well with them.
>>5563512
I tend to give Alpha Bravo an action hero type personality in my head, so I usually count him as a reserve Wrecker.
>>5563526
Wait. They can smack people in the face with the worst kind of humor, but people calling them out can't call them out? You're not a very good whiteknight.
So when are the janitors coming in?
>>5563580
Try posting something completely related to Transformers but disliked by people, like Kiss Players.
Janitors love nuking that.
>>5563580
When this thread hits 310 posts, then you'll see some serious shit.
>>5563580
>So when are the janitors coming in?
Now.
>>5562868
Huh. Looks a lot like Don Figueroa's unused classics Astrotrain transformation. Wonder if he gets paid for those still, or if he only finds out about it after the toy's made, like with bomber Megatron
>>5562807
Autobot beastformers who were so zealous in their anti-Decepticon activities that they turned into war criminals
>>5563694
>tfw the BW Mutants were originally part of that Animorphs line and would have had a creepy humanish face in the bat's mouth
Would have been creepy as fuck.
>>5563694
So, like the dinobots?
>>5562609
I dunno, always seems like TFW's desperately sucking hasbro's dick even now. like they think they're gonna get a replacement for archer as their "insider info".
they're still sucking archer's dick now that he's not even involved with hasbro and his company's closest link to TFs is some paintjobs at extra marked up prices for shitty nontransforming junk, even.
I suspect if hasbro ever DID bother being pissy about third party shit TFW would be the first to purge all info related to it, in some vain attempt at regaining favor they're never going to get.
now... as for the whole "petty bullshit over the end of "orson"" field, I seem to recall TFW going on a crusade against tformers back when it happened.
>>5562633
I'm fucking confused was Howlback supposed to be male or what? I'm fucking confused on the gender of a fucking robot jaguar.
>>5562609
the TF fandom is full of people who flipflop overnight.
I remember when dreamwave was a thing. the fandom was constantly spooging their pants over anything dreamwave related... and then dreamwave went out of business. and all of a sudden everyone across at least three forums switched to "I hated them and their art and I always did".
>>5564010
>I seem to recall TFW going on a crusade against tformers back when it happened.
Well, to be fair, it was Wheeljack of Tformers that pitched a hissy fit at Hasbro over TFW supposedly getting exclusive treatment. His motivation was more of a petty "If WE can't have him then NO ONE should."
Then his lord and master JayC from TNI defended him on ATT by using the rapist's defense of "Well, it's all TFW's fault because they were asking for it."
JayC and Wheeljack are petty tyrants on a par with Kalidor.
>>5564052
Jesus Christ. Its like they think liking toys for children is serious.
Fan-site politics, needless drama, irrelevant bullshit, who cares. All the bitching about it isn't any better.
I come here to talk about Transformer toys. They're fucking rad.
Shouts out if you think Transformer toys are fucking rad.
>>5562564
>separate thing which is ignorable and can be put on the side vs a fucking head that ruins the look of the character
nice comparison apologistfag. Headmaster gimmick is still shit on non headmaster characters.
>>5564075
avoid drama, enjoy toys
>>5564080
Truth
>>5564078
It doesn't though.
>>5564075
I wish I could afford more of them.
>>5562896
He's in disguise.
>>5564075
coincidentally, i fucking love transformers
>>5564134
>>5564110
i see you scoopin
Not new pictures, but it's the first time I've seen them.
I guess these are the RID targetmasters huh? [spoiler]Want.[/spoiler]
patiently waiting for this to show up
>>5564141
People are gonna think I'm nuts but I wish at least one of the CW combiners had minicon hand/feet or like a single legends figure turned into a fist or something.
>>5564154
You know that's not the worst idea.
>>5564141
>>5564144
>turns into scary face gauntlets
i need 2 of these already
>>5564147
Sword will be tied to a repaint of the commander class sideswipe.
>>5564165
Good thing I didn't buy the one in stores now.
>>5564165
Huh, is the blade part added-on armor? Or does he have his own blade folded up behind him?
>>5564159
He does has a red version in the mobile game.
>>5564165
such a missed opportunity to put a new head on and call him red alert
>>5564179
Yeah, every repaint should be a new character, kids don't give a shit about owning 12 sideswipes in various colors and collectors don't either.
>>5564144
This guy would have been pretty rad in sharkticon colors.
>>5564179
They are pushing Sideswipe hard to be the new Bumblebee. He even has an upcoming rescue bots toy.
>>5564189
Oh shit he would have.
>>5564190
I'm not bitching about new molds, that's fine, but repaints always work better as new characters unless it's referencing something in the show and I don't think it was.
>>5564154
TFW Hasbro might be too dumb to try this.
>>5564154
Is it necessary though? The original toy was pretty good.
>>5564201
Is any of this necessary? No.
Would it be fun? Duh.
>>5564206
>And as always, Hasbro ignores Sunstreakers existence.
Could be worse. Could be like the comics, where Sunstreaker got skullfucked by Scorponok, turned into a Headmaster against his will, turned into a bitch traitor, and then died a shitty death.
>>5564206
>Hasbro ignores Sunstreakers existence.
Is there one in the show that doesn't have a toy? Because otherwise you forget that a sunstreaker figure was recently released and can be found pegwarming at a store near you.
>>5564206
Well Sunstreaker isn't traditionally the same mold as Sideswipe, and the colors are clearly Red Alert it just needs a new head, but I agree I love Sunstreaker and he needs some love outside of the shitty CW figure.
>>5564208
The only reason that toy was Sunstreaker was because they already had Ironhide, so they didn't use 2 red toys for the same combiner.
>>5564216
Seems like a dumb idea given most people wanted 2 red and 2 blue limbs for Optimus.
>>5564221
Well, it was a homage to Energon Prime, so it needed those colors (no orange, but close enough).
>>5564207
Up until the end of the Headmaster business, shit was going great for Sunstreaker fans since he got to be important for the first time ever (background filler in the cartoon, "dead" for almost the entire duration of the Marvel comic), it only went to shit in AHM.
Sunstreaker is rarely used, even in other continuities while is brother:
-Gets to be in the movies (his brother gets a small mention in those buildable card figures)
-Gets to be in an Animated comic (Sunstreaker only getting a small cameo)
-Gets to be in WFC/FOC and noverls related to it (Sunstreaker is never mentioned, despite the game being G1 heavy)
-Gets to be in the new RID (Sunstreakers not around)
>>5564052
realistically speaking, archer wasn't supposed to be doing that shit. eventually someone at hasbro was going to figure it out and put the kibosh to it, regardless. and TFW was holding that shit above everyone else, because again, petty and egotistical asshats.
absolutely everyone involved in that was and still is a faggot.
>>5564075
they were more rad before hasbro decided that their best selling pricepoint could stand a 50% price increase.
and then those fagmeisters wonder why people are feeding their kids phone shovelware instead of toys... even the typical negligent parent has a limit on how much they're willing to spend to keep their kid out of the way of their self-serving bullshit.
>>5564227
it's a damned poor homage to grandconvoy, if it's supposed to be one.
but I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a reference to one of those ONE TIIIIIIIIME, IN GEEWUUUUUN... things, where the autobots pretended to be menasor or something.
>>5564154
Would buy in a heartbeat.
It would also be awesome if they used the mold for the G1 Guardian Robots so that you could army build.
>tfw new robotadventures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCMaIGjm3js
>>5564268
I can't take this guy. Happened across one of his videos by accident and it traumatized me. Are his reviews actually watchable?
>>5564259
And if it's that it's also a piss poor one, since only two the members were in the original team.
>>5564154
You know what would be great if they released more toys with this mold?
Making pegs that could plug the train modes together into one long ass train like the Trainbots combined vehicle mode.
I usually don't like overusing a mold, but that would be so much fun.
>>5564275
so in short, it's another hasbro-issue trainwreck.
a cashgrab born of designers going 'hay how can we reuse this mold? oh, I know, let's make ops out of it because it's a trukk."
>>5564294
What did you expect? New arms?
>>5564294
Everyone knew the mold was intended to be Astrotrain when they saw Sentinel Prime.
>>5563380
Whoever made this... I love you. Kamen Rider Amazon is awesome.
>>5564080
>>5564083
AMEN TO THAT.
>>5564306
I know my camera is shite, but this is the Decepticon side.
>>5564294
Their isn't any (that I can see) unless you count the head.
>>5564182
Maybe hasbro is trying the TMNT tactic of a billion repaints of the main heroes. Not sure if it works, but there has to be some money in it. That and it's cheap as fuck.
>>5564320
They are already flipping some molds out in hawaii-blue "arctic camo" for the main characters.
MP laser wave when?
They leak us hotrod but nothing of him yet, no review "samples", no nothing.
>>5564075
I could never get into chrome on Transformers toys.
>>5564154
I fucking i need to happen.
>>5564190
>Sideswipe the arrogant prick
>in RID
>Not Strongarm
>Who'd actually fit in with other rescue vehicles.
WHYYYYYYY?
>>5564308
Is Menasor's horn broken?
>>5564374
They can't handle best girl/grill
>>5562692
Why the fuck do Walky and the friggin Allspark of all places have that much influence with Hasbro? They're a bunch of tranny faggot bronies for christ sakes. This irritates me more than it should.
>>5564374
>>5562754
God that guy is such a piece of shit. I thought BMOG was Trent Troop's brainchild though. I'm so very happy that PlayWithThisToo failed, not once, but twice.
>>5564390
>>5562711
>BMOG
What's the skinny on this?
There's a lot more remolding on Victorion than I originally thought.
Her combined head stinks though.
>>5564427
>dat chest
Damn didn't realize it, cheers for that.
...not that I want it or anything
>>5564010
>I suspect if hasbro ever DID bother being pissy about third party shit TFW would be the first to purge all info related to it
Ironically, it was actually Seibertron that did this already. None of their toy galleries have anything third party past City Commander and they've stopped posting 3P news entirely. All this in an attempt to get Hasbro to notice them more.
What triggers you guys the most in a TF? For me it's
>No wrist articulation
>Fists molded to where it can't take advantage of the elbow articulation because the elbows have to be turned to the sides
This has ruined so many toys for me. Especially if they use melee weapons. I'm looking at you, Scourge.
>>5564427
The head she has in the comics is infinitely better.
>>5564427
>that fish-eyed face
>>5564013
I believe Howlback's techspec is not specific about gender (uses no pronouns) so that means it's totally okay to fanon whatever you want in there, according to shitheads like Walky
>>5564207
He's been alive since midway through Costa's ongoing run, anon. He never died. In fact, he's even on the fucking Last Light
...I'm starting to think takara's astrotrain might be a little bland.
Unless they recolor hasbro's details or mate it a flat finish, 100% certain hasbro's will be straight up plastic.
I want my astrotrain to look good in all forms
>>5564484
People are taking UW Menasor as an example when it's not really. Just look at the original Henkei Astrotrain.
>>5564013
>>5564476
>Howlback's appearance in Recordicons is actually a fairly momentous situation, from a meta viewpoint. As the Shattered Glass universe in which it is set has crossed over with the Classics universe—which is itself a Marvel-derived continuity—Howlback's assigned sex is "neuter", but as she identifies as a woman (as expressed in her Recordicons appearance), she has the honor of being the first Transformers character in the history of the brand to be depicted in official fiction as transgender—at least according to the author.
This used to be the note after the above:
>The above point is authorial intent. But it's canonically supported authorial intent, and it's awesome, so it stands under its own merit.
>>5564436
i'm not sure what's it called but hands like those on RID strongarm, CW hotspot pisses me off
>>5564495
Boxing gloves
>>5564491
But I liked UW menasor, its UW defensor I had issues with...
But I'm wondering, would takara keep the leg paint apps recolored like the hasbro one does, that helps bring out more detail.
Or would they stick strictly to more g1, as much as I'd prefer hasbro colors he may end up being bland in robot mode, guess time will tell since astrotrain voyager DOES exist, just no release window
>>5564496
yes, those
fuck those hands
Guess who goes where?
Again hasbro australia, apparently these shots were taken from toyfair.
Wish it weren't a trade only show so I can laugh at these, seriously astrotrain's figure looks like crap
>>5564518
>People are complaining about the feet, but they can go both ways. (yes, Astrotrain is headless in this photo)
I knew about it but as a reminder
>>5564518
Dude, they're really fucking tiny. I'd say they look pretty good for their size.
>>5564520
>
According to the official images given to me later, the head for Astrotrain is called Darkmoon. Looks to be the same mould as Sentinel Prime's head,
but with Astrotrain's face on the back instead of Sentinel Prime.
...dafuq
>>5564521
I'm more mad at the molding used, that and aspergo's figure looks better on takaras, only because more paint apps.
Sculpt wise ok, I have gashapons better looking but they cost a hell of alot more than these.
That and astrotrain's just sentinel prime again
>>5564524
Ah, the star himself, of course while the cannon looks good...
>>5564437
I couldn't resist.
>>5564525
The lone head sucks, I'm also amazed at astrotrain, that's all paint, but only white and yellow with eyes?
2 tone would of been nice, also squeeze play rocks, damn
>>5564528
...ok that purple has weird effects from certain angles.
>>5564528
I'm in a meme making mood.
>>5564529
SO, the guy who went and took these took the generations book and compared, its not aperfect homage but its close.
He also admits he lacked the original shockwave, hence the fucked up legs
>>5564530
KEK
>>5564531
And just because.
>Dat ass
The more I see of astrotrain, the more I find myself...happy with the mold so much than I usually would, might get both takara and hasbro versions depending on color choices
>>5564531
so close yet oh so far.
also glad you liked it.
>>5564518
Sure was nice of aussie hasbro to provide us all these photos.
>>5564216
But they didn't ignore sunstreaker.
>>5564557
To be fair, these shots were taken via a combo of members of oztransformers (apparently australia has an active transformers community, handy for finding new releases and specials) and hasbro reps.
This was taken via a rep, apparently the guy who took it was a visiting rep from hasbro america, the guy in the suite is hasbro australia.
Also clearly one of the forum attendee's was a show off, bringing in eva convoy, christ
>>5564268
You must be him. TFG is one of only 2 threads I follow here and I've never seen him mentioned in any capacity. Nice try.
>>5561743
>>5561746
>>5564436
The second one. At least you can get better posing if the wrists aren't molded trying to do a bicep curl.
>>5564568
wait is that a Crasher repaint of Mirage/Drag Strip I see there?
>>5564492
>neuter
How do you neuter something that doesn't have sexual organs to begin with and doesn't even breed?
