You weren't planning on buying import toys, were you citizen? Especially not at an unofficial convention in Canada. Don't you want Hasbro to update your favorite character?
Old thread >>5742462
>>5744620
I mean, buying Takara is still supporting the Transformers brand. Whichever way you go, the money is all going into the same hands.
>>5744620
>don't you want Hasbro to update your fav character?
Classics Dinobots when?
>>5744633
They already did a "classics-generations" set.
>>5744647
Those bayformer bodies do not mesh with those G1 style heads at all.
>>5744620
Are we posting "custom" combiners now?
>>5744648
Eh, they grow on you, once you have them in hand, just like blackarachnia. I like them, their armors/beastmodes are a bit busy, but not that far of TR, in my headcanon they look different because they were the first trying to get an organic altmode.
>>5744659
Hm. If the price drops on the set in the future maybe I'll pick em up.
>>5744620
>Don't you want Hasbro to update your favorite character?
No. I want Takara to update my favorite character because I know they wont remove articulation or repaint other toys that look nothing like the character and pass it off as an """update""" when it's really just cost cutting.
>>5744647
And it's garbage.
>>5744656
>"Hey look guys, I'm G1 Menasor"
>"Stop playing around, Bruticus"
>>5744664
That's the strangest part. If Takara is going to put in all this extra effort for new toolings anyways, then why not use them? I can understand not using head swaps or minor recolors, but these guys share only two molds and Takara has no straight repaints. It's just so strange and doesn't seem like a smart business move.
I'm not an out of businessman though, so I'm probably missing something. You'd think Hasbro would learn after the Prime Breakdown debacle.
>>5744675
I still find it weird that Hasbro finally decides to do actual hands and feet attachments, but they fuck ti all up and do it on an exclusive box set, instead of either doing it right from the beginning, or swapping all the CW stuff over to molded hands/feet and selling upgrade packs fro the previous combiners that have the feet/hands in proper colors.
>>5744682
How is this brain surgery to you? Hasbro gave the figures changeable poeces in case children wanted multiple pieces, or built for customibility. So things weren't set in stone and you wouldn't be stuck with just hand pieces if you wanted something, or 3 feet and one hand. And a hand that transforms into a foot is better for individual packaging as opposed to just a hand.
The boxed sets get exclusive hands because they're complete sets. Also, it's an additiomal incentive to buy them.
>>5744700
Why not include that hands and feet with voyagers? That would guarantee kids would have a complete set regardless and it would be matching as well.
Then again they probably wanted to avoid having combiner kibble lying around and didn't want voyagers with extremities dangling off of them. There's just no simple solution outside of making it for collectors which ain't happening.
>>5744703
Didn't Hasbro recently say that because the market share for collectors is growing that they want more collector focused pieces?
nb4 all that means is actually releasing some MP's here in the US.
>>5744705
Except they aren't releasing more MPs here in the US, they said we're only getting 2 this year same as most years. So wtf are they talking about? Are we getting a TF:Black series or some shit?
>>5744726
It means more Platinum releases and box sets
>>5744726
What is a black series?
nb4 racism. Not that I care, just that it won't answer the question and you know it.
>>5744738
We're getting a whole of these guys in every style of Transformers ever.
>>5744738
The "collectors oriented" line of 6 inch starwars figures.
>>5744744
The collector oriented line of 3 3/4" Star Wars too. Black is just the label they stick on the "premium" collector line. Remember when GI Joe was getting a black series and fell through?
>>5744738
Star wars line catering to "collectors" but with pretty poor QC efforts in terms of paint, we got the 6inch action figures, the older smaller ones and the diecast helmets/vehicles
Our black series basically is the generations toys ie titan masters and combiner wars when you think about it
Compare them with the marvel legends line and star wars black series and that is what they are, at a distance recognizable but up close its just a toy catering to our nostalgia in an effort to hide QC, while the animated line is coming close they're far more simpler in many ways.
I buy all 4 mentioned lines as well as takara versions where possible, hasbro knows we're cheap asses who just want more shit unlike takara who know we're paying a little bit more for something better, even import cost
>>5744744
So, what, US companies trying to make figma's/revoltech's, and probably failing miserably?
>>5744748
Uh no.
>>5744748
Figmas and revoltechs cater to japanese autism, wide range of possibility and accessories, but they cost shitloads more.
Our "premium" figures focus on likeness mostly but feature rougher paint apps in many cases and their joints are better hidden at the cost of poseability.
To me neca is at the top of the food chain in likeness but the cost is a bit much (and their paint apps looks hand done so its up to their OC variations to accept some of the more humanoid figures), but hasbro figures dumb down their figures to the max with sloppier paint apps (clearly a machine that's the equivalent of a makeup shotgun ala simpsons) less articulation and accessories, but they're far cheaper to buy and still classed as "collectors".
Sometimes they look good but far from perfect
>>5744748
Kinda, black series standarized alternative hands and heads (at least most have them), the accesory quantity isn't as much as figma standards but they try to include the important stuff (like bb8 included with Rey), some have really nice pant apps and good articulation, but there are also stinkers, still really good for its retail price.
>>5744778
Ah, thanks for explaining. More familiar with Japanese figures. Would love to see the US try and compete with it, but all I ever end up seeing is shit that should've just been a statue. Lot of Japanese shit proves you can have good sculpts and ridiculous articulation, yet no US business seems to have grasped that yet.
>>5744656
>Not posting the $1k 40 keks bruticus
>>5744791
I suppose hasbro and others are also aware people may lack imagination, as a result the joints are better hidden, why make an arm have an exposed ball joint if it's just gonna stand there?
These guys in pic related look badass but can't do much pose wise, near statue shit, they won me over the S.H figurarts versions though and thankfully I lacked the creativity and funds to bother looking for those guys.
>>5744797
To be honest I think the black series and so forth are aimed at kids, young kids thinking they're hardcore collectors just because they got this shitty toy line that's over crowding on local shelves.
Judging from mandarake's preowned stuff the japanese must also be envious of our toys at times, still makes me cringe funko pops end up on amiami listings
>>5744620
>You weren't planning on buying import toys, were you citizen? Especially not at an unofficial convention in Canada.
Fuck you I do what I want.
>Don't you want Hasbro to update your favorite character?
I actually would but I also have preferences.
Ferguson Prime doesn't play. Fuck off Police Brutalicus
>>5744656
so WFC Soundwave and a Classics seeker body as Soundwave?
how does that transform?
>>5744620
>Don't you want Hasbro to update your favorite character?
Headmaster Rook for Titans Return
>>5744838
fak off whitey
>>5744842
Arms fold into body
Legs bend and hang off the sides
>>5744847
Would the head guy be called Pawn?
>>5744854
God I hope so
>>5744852
pics?
>>5744851
>>5744838
>>5744620
>>5744861
>Headmaster Rook can turn into some sort of expansion on one of the base guys by using a connector which was were the limb mode was on the original.
>>5744847
Will he be in place of headmaster Groove?
>>5744878
You're just killing it with these.
Will Jesus Dashboard be part of the first wave of TR?
Thank HLJ for the sale.
>>5744985
I reckon he's wave 2, four deluxes and two voyagers per wave, he'll appear alongside Astrotrain.
So I'm getting groove in the mail today, does he have any bad QC to worry about? I know that several people have said they got ones with loose joints
>>5744985
>>5745003
I still can't believe at long last we have a Alpha Trion figure released at retail.
never thought i'd see the day.
>tfw you want to get the best version possible of lightspeed because he was the original sadboi of transformers so you're making one but you are kinda depressed and would like to eat out alone some day not too far
>>5745062
Shouldn't you have asked this BEFORE you bought it in a way that would mean a hassle to replace it?
>>5745125
Be nice if we actually got a good one.
>>5744975
Can't wait for MP Optimal, then I'll really have fun.
Animal bots are always cool.
>>5745144
Well I can't really tell if my figure's loose without actually having it
>>5745185
If you were like the rest of us and could see things in the fifth dimension, you'd be able to.
Suggestion of just combiner wars options to make an all military bot with military colors? I have Brawl and Hound already.
>>5744991
How much you snag him for?
>>5745204
Are any of the Aerialbots in colors actually used by the military? Or are all military jets just grey/black?
I don't know if Vortex is realistic at all in alt mode.
>>5745204
Brawl, Swindle, Rook for an APC, Hound, any of the Aerialbots, Blastoff (CW).
>>5745062
Mine had some mold flash on the tabs where the shins close up. Not too big of a deal, just took an exacto to it a little bit.
>>5745211
You'll have to go movieverse to get realistic decos, heres MP leader Starscream.
>>5745272
>Bayformer
>MP
Boy, those slant-eyed fools really will put anything into MP packaging.
>>5745277
Get over it, its been almost 7 years since it was released.
>>5745277
Considering it was designed by the same guy who designed the MPs from MP-10 through Wheeljack, and who has said that the movie and animated lines engineering has inspired the MP line..
>>5745272
>ACTUALLY buying Bayformer shit
>>5745294
Hoi doi, been 9 years, get over it.
>>5745291
>who has said that the movie and animated lines engineering has inspired the MP line.
wat
>>5745307
The engineering, not the designs. Lessons learned making them inspired ideas used in MP toys.
>>5745309
Yeah, I get that, but my point was that the MP line has always been heavy on complex engineering. Sure, you can learn from Animated and RotF's engineering and apply that to MP designs, but saying they inspired the line implies it wasn't intricate to begin with.
>>5745207
All in all? $78 Canadian. He was about 50% off in HLJ last week so I just had to get him. I just checked and now he's back to his regular price so that might suck for anybody who was late to the party.
>>5745307
If you can't see how the mainlines since 07 have influenced every other aspect of TF engineering, you must really not be paying attention. MP-01 is downright simple compared to what Hasui did with the MP line.
For fucks sake, Hasui started designing things like Armada Starscream, and now he does things like MP Wheeljack and Prowl.
>>5745318
No, I mean the designer for the later MPs literally learned from working on Animated and the Movies line. The MPs before where mostly handled by the designer for things like Alternators and RiD sideburn.
>>5745323
Any reason you got the Takara version? Just curious. I went for the CW myself, not too much of a fan of red legs Magnus, and I used to own the G1 toy...
>>5745323
>78 canadian
>when i bought this for full price upon release it was cheaper because of the exchange rate
Yikes
>>5745280
>>5745300
I find it funny people still complain about the movies when were already going into the 5th installment next year.
Oh also people who bitch about the original Leader Starscream either is trying hard to hate him or has never seen how well built it is. Seriously if you compare him to any TFs or MP that came out in the recent 3~4 years nothing can really beat it from how complicated it is to transform to the build quality.
>>5745330
That was with the shipping already senpai. People were asking $120~150 for him during toy show main reason I was holding off and was just gonna settle for the Hasbro version.
>>5745334
but the old men with saggy balls say its not their Starscream cartoon character so we should hate them, because who cares about toys?
>>5745338
Preach on!
>>5745334
>I find it funny people still complain about the movies when were already going into the 5th installment next year.
Probably because age doesn't make a shit movie series suck any less. And it's come up again because now at least 3 more cancerous sequels are planned, plus spin-off's from this horrible shitshow of terrible storytelling mixed with ParkinsonsCam (tm Mikey Bay) and some of the ugliest TF designs ever seen.
>>5745345
>implying the original G1 series made any sense and that the G1 movie wasn't as bad as the bay movies
You should really take out your nostalgia goggles for once.
>>5745351
>implying an 80's Saturday morning cartoon produced on a shoestring budget should be held to the same standards as a multi-million dollar blockbuster movie
See, the cartoon had an excuse to be bad. It was also the first TF show. But a big, expensive movie?
Sorry, if you can't hire a good writer and good director with you massive budget and access to huge pools of talent, you deserve every last bit of criticism when you churn out raw shit.
>>5745345
>>5745228
Thx
yeah the movies are shit, but the first two toylines where a highpoint of the franchise. Keep sucking that subpar generations and MP dick because they remind you of some cartoons you watched as a dumb kid.
>>5745351
>dumping on TF:TM
Michael Bay pls go.
>>5745367
You forgot to throw out Geewunner as well, Bay cocksucker. Get back to tfw2005 with the rest of your kind.
>>5744991
Yeah, I'm glad I waited for the sale. I have a couple cases of CW Magnus left over but the painted wheels on the Legends version look so much better.
>>5745420
tfw2005 is where the old men go, though.
>>5745351
G1 movie is good soft sci-fi wrapped in an animated music video. The G1 cartoon was made on pennies and managed to get some of the best performances out of some of the best voice actors to ever live.
The Bay movies have infinite budgets and give us some of the worst camerawork and action choreography in any film ever made, while having absolutely no redeeming qualities to fall back on.
This ignorant Bay apolegism has to stop. It's like people defending Call of Duty by saying that all games are bad.
>>5745383
No amount of engineering makes up for the terrible designs the majority of the lines suffered.
>>5745334
>complicated = good
It literally looks like shit. It's not hard to have a good looking altmode when your robot mode is just a jumble of shapeless parts.
>>5745459
>The G1 cartoon was made on pennies
No matter how many times you say it a low budget does not automatically excuse any problems a show has.
>and managed to get some of the best performances out of some of the best voice actors to have ever lived
Do Geewunners actually believe this?
>>5745478
>Do Geewunners actually believe this?
>Frank Welker
>Peter Cullen
>Scatman Cruthers
>the guy who did Starscream I can't remember his name
>Orson fucking Wells
Yeah, that totally doesn't compare to fucking Shia LeBouf and Tits McWhogivesafuck and whoever they got to voice those unrecognizable shitpiles in Bayformers.
>>5745485
>Cruthers
Cothers
>the guy who did Starscream I can't remember his name
Chris Latta
>Wells
It's Welles, you pleb.
Your points are valid but your person is quite retarded; please refrain from further participation in this thread.
>>5745485
>thinking naming a bunch of actors means your point is valid
>can't even properly name most of them
I think the Bay movies are shit too but you're not making a very good case for the original show.
>>5745485
A good cast yes, but they hardly gave it their all. I love voice acting and all, but their performances were no better than any other extended 80s toy commercials.
>>5745485
You're on the fucking internet. Use Google, you ass.
>>5745505
It's crothers
It seems leader soundwave is a retool of blaster in every way
>>5745537
Right down to the helmet gimmick...
>we geewunners are totally not immature manchildren guise, i swear rrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee get out bayfags not MUH transformers t. john warden
So, what was the last time people who like BW or the movies started shit?
hello /tfg/ i'd like to begin selling some sort of upgrade kits I'd make with my 3'd printer. any ideas for an upgrade kit? I already have some feet made for combiners that I'd like to mass release.
>>5745541
A relatively easy to make thing would be filler pieces for hollow parts on TFs. I know there were some for Jetfire a year or so back.
>>5745485
I'll give you that the Original movie is better than any of the live action ones, but that doesn't excuse it form being a rushed mess of a toy commercial. Plus the live action ones had Kelsey Grammer, Hugo Weaving, Frances McDormand, John Turturro, Leonard Nimoy, John Malkovich, all on top of Cullen and Welker.
Just because you have all the right ingredients doesn't mean the outcome is any good.
>>5745485
>listing Welles with any kind of prestige
>when at that point he was a penniless, deadbeat old man on his deathbed that took any work possible
>>5745541
Post pics, I need some Combiner limbs and Nonnef takes two years to get some out and they can' even hold the weapons.
>>5745549
>Plus the live action ones had
>Leonard Nimoy
Dafuq, which movie was he in?
I had no idea he was in any of the newer movies and was only aware he was galvatron in the old g1 movie
>>5745539
>Head somehow looks better without helmet
Seriously, that hat makes him look like a dweeby buff guy who cleans the base all day.
>>5745555
That...sounds like something soundwave would do just to please megatron
>>5745554
He voiced Sentinel in DOTM.
Did you not wonder why they shoehorned in the "Needs of the many" line?
>>5745554
Sentinel Prime.
>>5745554
He was sentinel prime in dotm
![sentinel-prime-wallpaper-i13[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/pYGmWTu.jpg "sentinel-prime-wallpaper-i13[1].jpg")
>>5745554
The one where the villain was a creepy mummified deathbed Nimoy
>>5745553
a ball joint assembly will sit inside, I have a printed model that I tried to paint but ended up trashing. I'd like to make the feet out of resin and use 3'd printed parts for the ball joint assmebly.
>>5745554
Sentinel Prime in DotM
Huge waste of talent. That character was a trainwreck from start to finish. Plus
What's worse is that he really only kills Ironhide, which I guess makes him unlikable but Ironhide didn't do anything in the movies so it just makes me mad that the writers thought I'd give a crap.
>>5745570
Star Trek, dude. Spock's (Nimoy's) line "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few", probably his most remembered line after "Live long and prosper".
I really hope the TF5 toyline has at least SOMETHING worth adding to a collection. I dearly love my collecting hobby, but goddamn AoE made it difficult. Everything I initially thought "Ooh, that looks kinda cool, that'll make a good toy" turned out to be shite. Lockdown and Galvatron were the worst offenders for me.
I don't know if I dare hope for any decent movie toys or not. Oy.
>>5745537
They forgot to push the helmet down right?
This has to be a joke right?
>>5745583
Dinobots were cool.
>>5745541
You wanna make money hand over fist? Make hard plastic tires for figures people love that have rubber tires. When tires rot people want replacements, and no one has any because no one makes them. Start with replacement tires for the RID 2001 Optimus Prime (fire convoy) and Ultra Magnus. I'll buy a set for each from you right now, those tires rotted off uears ago. I'll buy an MP ultra magnus set from you, and an MP Prime set from you. I want plastic back ups for when the stock rubber ones eventually die. MAKE FUCKING TIRE UPGRADES/REPLACEMENTS!!!!
>>5745478
Yes, because it's true. Suck it baynigger.
>>5745540
People who "like" the movies start shit constantly.
Nobody with a functioning brain actually likes Bay though.
>>5745549
>muh toy commercial
Literally the only criticism Baycucks are capable of parroting.
Is there a single director in the history of film with less talent than Michael Bay?
>>5745636
Uwe Boll
Ed Wood
Quentin Tarantino
Of course, a geewun manchild such as yourself only watches 1908s cartoons and adaptations thereof so you have no real experience of the medium.
>>5745636
Paul W. Anderson
>>5745643
>Ed Wood
>worse than Michael Bay
Lolno.
>Uwe Boll
>worse than Bay
Uwe Boll literally has more good movies in his career than Bay, and he did it without the full backing of the American studio system.
>Tarantino
I don't like him either but now you're just shitposting.
>>5745597
Seconded. My Fire Convoy's tires seem okay but god knows how they'll be in a few years.
>>5745537
>>5745539
>>5745544
>>5745589
>>5745590
>>5745639
>>5745665
>all these dumb 90s brats who don't know what G1 Soundwave's head looked like
Get the fuck off my board and take your Yiff Wars garbage with you.
>>5745682
>It's old so it must be good!
>>5745682
But you just prove what went wrong with the new head.
It should something like this. The visor need to be thinner
>>5745682
Go back to TFW2005 if you want your seniority to mean something.
>>5745682
>Yiff Wars
Ironically, I've probably been collecting longer than you,as you probably only came back when they started dangling G1 carrots in front of you.
>>5745537
I'll probably get a Blaster when if it goes on clearance, Soundwave looks pretty bad.
>>5745697
I wonder if the inside of the helmet can be hollowed out a bit more to push down? Nonetheless, I'm disappointed. Guess I'll get back to modding my G1 Soundwave again.
>>5745733
Hollowing out the helmet won't help unless the connection rod can be adjusted to allow the helmet to be in a lower position.
I am still trying to understand the long eyes (visor) is because transformation or it is designed to be like that.
In the other official image (see image) you can see the helmet in a lower position. But >>5745537
image is a from a official test playing event in Taiwan. I doubt the people in the event are not hardcore enough to transform figure properly.
>>5745755
>the only good modern soundwave is the mp
Being a Soundwave fan is suffering.
>>5745571
>Sketchup
>Not using Inventor
>Hell even Blender
Why
>>5745537
Literally a poor man's MP Soundwave.
>>5745459
Bay knows what he wants, at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2THVvshvq0Q
>>5745636
Zack Snyder
>>5745789
Yeah, that's probably what I'll shoot for if I decide to get it. Hoping for a 3P fix.
>>5745359
All things considered, 80s and 90s shows were total cheese. So it was great by its times standards and still is.
Bayformers was never good and never will be. Plus the designs are shit and look like crumpled up tin foil.
>>5745809
Ironically Snyder and Bay were classmates at the same film school.
Coincidence?
>>5745651
>Uwe Boll
>good movies
I don't believe you.
>>5745383
>Armada was a highpoint of the franchise
ftfy
>>5745478
>all these deletions
Jesus, the mods are getting a bit overzealous lately. And most of'em were about Transformers, or pics of them. The shit is going on here?
>>5745786
The Animated and FoC are fine, and maybe the UC one, if you are a fan of traditional interpretations of the character. The Human Alliance and Prime ones are good if you like alternate takes on his design, same goes for the bayverse satellite.
>>5745459
>G1 movie is good soft sci-fi wrapped in an animated music video.
Anon there were better version of that shit way before the TF film and they had a lot more substances than "kill the old toy line offer the new!" I mean fuck sakes that was the film start to finish, in the fist half hour they kill the old toys and the forty minutes after that (rest of the film) was just introducing new toys. No substances, no depth to the sci-fi, the "music videos" were more or less the standard plug and play formula of the time. Hell the 86 was as artistically sold out as the 07 film.
>The G1 cartoon was made on pennies
>published by Sunbow and co-produced with Marvel Productions
>Toei Animation
>AKOM Production
>made on pennies
I just can't describe in words how stupid you are.
>managed to get some of the best performances out of some of the best voice actors to ever live
That was thanks to Wally Burr a very expensive hard as nails director that was attributed (true or not) as one of the reasons VA recording sessions were reduced because he was just a monster at constant retakes and screenings. Most memorable voice acting cartoons from the 80s are thanks to him and was nothing special to TF at the time.
>This ignorant Bay apolegism has to stop
pot meet kettle
You are just as much an apolgesit to the G1 and it's just as misinformed if not worse
> It's like people defending Call of Duty by saying that all games are bad.
No that's not it at all. You can't even into synonyms examples right. What's happening is a person is saying the original CoD is better and the Advance Warfare is shit when another person objects and says that original CoD is shit too.
Love your childhood but please do it honestly
man, i've forgotten how sweet warpath is
does the legends even compare?
>>5746043
I feel this discussion has had its moment already
im not saying we shouldn't talk about the cartoons, im just saying we should talk about them THIS in depth, in a thread about toys
>>5746054
>does the legends even compare?
Legends Warpath?
No, i dont believe the legends toy can compare to the larger, more complex Deluxe toy
>>5746043
Not him, but
>criticizing the TF movie for lacking substance and depth
>uses Rock & Rule as an example of the contrary??
I enjoyed that movie too, but one of the biggest criticisms of the film was the lack of depth and unoriginal plot.
Also the animation looking like shit at times.
>>5746055
Huge drought where we have next to nothing to talk about and bluntly I'll take a conversation about no toy issues over what normally happens which is just shitposting about which side of the pound makes the better rehashed toys
That said what's left to talk about? That summaries the situation pretty black and white. I assume anon's post is that old /co/ copy pasta that was used back in 09 to shut up the g1 enthusiasts that kept crying Bay raped their childhood it effectively stop that constant circle jerk because again where are you gong to go with it?
>>5746064
Same was said about the TF movie at the time just plug in "over the top violence not suited for the original cartoon's themes" and "shameless toy commercial"
However I feel we might be hitting a bad spot where we are just going to be playing "who's the shittiest" in terms of animated films of the 80's.
>>5746082
>"who's the shittiest"
Nah, I think they're both great films for what they were. I don't wanna go insulting either of them to prove my superior opinions on some Malaysian image board.
>>5746075
>Huge drought where we have next to nothing to talk about
MP Shockwave got KO'd already. Other than that, yeah, mostly waiting for the TR shit to come out already, Hasbro seems to be taking it's sweet fucking time between making sure the last CW wave had shit distribution to delay this one as long as possible.
I just want muh new Headmasters already to go with my old ones.
>>5746075
It's not the paste but it's off the top of my head from those days.
>>5746085
>>5746043 here and that wasn't my core goal either
Frankly I just get eye rolling to the people that think shit was better then when frankly it's all the same old song and dance, some are just going to enjoy what was exposed to them first and is tied to their youth. Im sure in a another decade there will be young adults getting mad at the Transformer reboot of 2027 stating the 07 film of their youth or TFA was superior with little input from G1ers where most will be in their 40s+ and either be dealing with real life or eating the bullet.
>>5746085
>bay
>"great for what it was"
Toilet paper?
>>5746043
>WAAAAAAHHHH WAAAAAHHHH THEY SAID MICHAEL BAY WAS BAD
Holy shit fucking kill yourself
>>5746103
You're literally delusional.
Lets cut the pointless debate crap. RID, what are some guys you want to see in the toyline before it's end? I want the mickey forklift.
>>5746216
bug siblings, soundwave just because
>>5746216
this dandy asshole
>>5745794
And MP Soundwave is busting apart at the hinges for some people because stage hinges are self-destructive crap. This looks like it can at least handle repeated transformation.
>>5746145
That post has barely anything to do with Michael Bay. It sounds more like it comes from the aggravation of hearing people act like everything from G1 was perfect and any criticisms of it can be brushed off without any real consideration.
>>5746278
The old forklift bot that was working with the blue gorllia guy, I haven't watched the show so I'm not sure of his name, it might be deadlift.
>>5746280
>liking bay
>ever
So I guess you like eating trash?
>>5744851
>jeep feet
jesus
>>5746285
Headlock.
The blue gorilla Ground Pounder got a legion toy announced so that's 1 step closer i guess.
Hong kong has titan returns.
Australia has Fort max
What do YOU have?
>inb4 fucking nothing
>>5746386
Haven't seen the Combaticon limbs yet.
>>5746386
Some real happy campers out there.
I won't see them for ages, most local stores to me still have sky reign wave limbs up
In other news Canada's MP bumblebee isout as we know, seibertron had these pics.
> The Hasbro Bumblebee has the standard serial number stamped on him (albeit much harder to find than the Datsun's) and the red tail lights are a bit dimmer but that's about it
So its just the takara one in a bigger box, wanna guess why the box is bigger?
Here's a hint-Its not the same as past hasbro figure layouts
>>5746386
Still no deluxes it seems.
The only ones of those I want is the Titanmasters.
>>5746390
>all these peg warmers
>>5746387
Erm...you ain't gonna see them at all then
>>5746394
I don't get why they did this.
Also I meant "shelf" warmer
>>5746393
Good luck, hope you don't have to resort to importing (well unless you want the takara versions)
>>5746396
kek, left is hasbro version obviously.
Gee I wonder if they'll revise the box to avoid embarrassment
>>5746399
You guys know where to go for the rest.
I'm tempted to get it for the box "art" alone
>>5746024
No hot pockets.
>>5746394
Nah, it'll just take longer like it usually does. They're not even the last wave of the subline
>>5746396
I'm somewhat tempted to get wheelie, I was planning to get this one for Goshooter, but he's really just japanese Siren so I might just get the local release.
>>5746424
>Japanese Siren
Actually Siren has darker colors also for like $20 bucks LG-Wheelie isn't too bad since you do get 2 figures, just bundle that up with something to save on shipping like what I did.
>>5746424
I wish for a release with a different head, like they did with powerglide and viper
>>5746426
I know, I mean he's his japanese equivalent, though by that logic so is minerva for nightbeat. I plan on getting Takara Skullcruncher so I might get wheelie with him, thanks for the advice.
>>5746429
I don't think we'll see anthing like that, but I reckon they might release Siren and Nightbeat in each others colours.
>>5746432
>by that logic so is minerva for nightbeat
No its not, Nightbeat is a male characters with different colors that was in the Marvel comics and Minerva was a female character for the Masterforce. Seriously the only thing that was not changed in the headmaster junior was Cab/Hosehead, Siren was darker in color than GoShuta which was white and Minerva I already mentioned above.
>>5746433
Minerva is Nightbeat's japanese equivalent though. a figure of minerva in nightbeats colours was released in japan, but the character was still Minerva.
>>5746424
While Siren and GoShooter had rather similar G1 toys, the TR/LG ones are pretty vastly different in paint, particularly in robot modes, if that matters to you.
>>5746453
True, I was thinking that since they originally looked pretty similiar there's no point in getting the two of them, but there's no point applyling that logic to the new two since all we're getting are their heads which look pretty diiferent like you said.
>>5746386
New Zealand here. Combaticon limbs have just started showing up in my area (Onslaught having already been around for a month or two now). SkyLynx is apparently also around, but I haven't personally seen one.
>>5746461
UKunt here, We also had Onslasaught for a while before his team too, really would like to see Skylynx.
>>5746466
That's Hasbro, they put Japanese text on the boxes for some reason.
>>5746467
I call bullshit, how are those back legs supporting it's weight?
>>5746466
Yep, I thought it was bs when I first saw it but its actually mis-transformed
Bit slow today.
Not mine but one of the lucky early adopters got TR blurr, LOTS of metallic blue plastic with 2 other paint apps (the light blue and the darker blue on the shins).
I personally hate this but gives me an idea on takara's blurr's form
>>5746523
The g1 toy accuracy is there but in the worst way possible
>>5746525
Something there though if you like metallic injected colored plastic/cheaper cost, because lets face it if you have no choice to buy this you either like the form or have an addiction to plastic
>>5746526
This is interesting, seems his head has
>>5746528
>I'm a bayformer underneath.
>>5746528
...a periscope.
If TR galvatron had something like this he may of been better, even astrotrain/sentinel prime has a much softer shoulder pylon gimmick, oh well you have options with blurr at least
>>5746530
He has more paint than other TR figures thats for sure from hasbro, why couldn't mega-I mean "nebulon" get them too?
>>5746529
Looks more gobot-y personally
And another early adopter has some fun.
I honestly wish sentinel prime's body was tooled better, optimus prime to motormaster least had different details, this is literally a headswap they...
Holy shit I thought of an idea they COULD of done.
>Sell OC TR transformers using bodies of existing transformers selling their original heads separately forcing you to buy TM figures to make them g1 accurate
Why didn't they do this, they could skip the retooling bit and just make people paint shitty customs, or is that being TOO cost effective?
>Add on effect for TR Fortress Maximus
Similar to the SDCC sword but diecast apparently, and that'sit for this "set".
I can tell it'll cost as much if not more than the CW add on sets because of the diecast, luckily I pre-ordered the SDCC fort max for the same price as TR fort max (which I returned to the store today) so this is another add on set I can dodge.
Anyone else considering/considered this?
>>5746534
Did Sentiel Prime end up much more red or is that just the camera?
>>5746537
Could be shit camera, dunno.
If I ever get him it'd either be on clearance or I gotten the SDCC set cheap
>>5745539
This is the most ugly soundwave i have ever seen. The titanium is better than this.
>>5745682
>i have to defend the toy i like, like the faggot i am!
I dont get the connection you are making between people who dont like the soundwave you like so much to furries.
>>5746386
Philippines anon here. My local TRU still has some lingering Combaticons, a few Sky Reign bots, and a single Protectobot.
Hopefully the Titans come soon. The MLP statueshit is already here, so it's just a matter of time.
>>5746523
One of the main problems with him is that there is very little contrast between the darker blues, so what paint detail is there ends up disappearing. Rookie deco mistake.
>>5746534
At least interchangeable heads being the actual gimmick this time around means a lot of redeco potential. Hate to say it, but shame that we won't have a third outlet in Fun Pub (after Hasbro and Takara) for getting things made anymore.
>>5746548
This would have been the perfect time for FunPub figures.
>previous tiny heads were because they had to fit their designs into preexisting head slots
>Headmaster gimmick means that it doesn't matter how big the heads got
>>5746534
I think we're buggered on guys like pic related getting there own bodies I wouldn't mind oc formers (rather than the likes of that crap Getaway) using repainted bodies that could double as bodies for the heads only dudes, that'd be cool.
So bruticus is being released next week right? I can't wait to be able to recreate this picture
>>5746558
Has no one tried that yet with the CW releases?
>>5746559
It'd barely resemble it.
>>5746216
Filch, Hammerstrike, Saberhorn, and the useless Grey DeLisle character.
>>5746475
There's this thing called balance.
>>5746558
I want to try this with the G2 guys to see just how bad the colors will clash.
Speaking of which, I really hop we get G2 Defensor. Rook or Groove doesn't matter as much as it just happening.
>>5746559
I've seen a couple, so yeah it's been done. I don't think I saved them though, sorry.
>>5746556
Are his eyes supposed to light up?
>>5746631
Yes, and he talks
>>5746556
knowing Funpub we would have then had bobble head sized heads and the TM little heads would look like chewed gum.
>>5746558
Bruticus is such a jew
>Toys R Us Hong Kong is giving away 100 Master Swords with the purchase of a Titans Returns Fortress Maximus. This special promotion features a recolored version of the sword included with the SDCC exclusive Fortress Maximus. What’s note worth is the deco on the sword is much more extensive than the SDCC version, matching the original Japanese G1 Fortress Maximus’ sword very closely. Could this be our first peek at the TakaraTomy Legends Master Sword included with their release? Or is this something decoed specifically by Hasbro Asia for this release? Only time will tell.
This is bullshit, the sdcc is losing ground
>>5746667
glad its only 100 of the fuckers.
So lets see, lets recap what each fort max gives us.
>TR
g1 American cartoon accurate cerebros, cheaper in general
>SDCC
Slightly better colors, retooled cerebros to match headmasters anime design, comes with sword
>Legends
Headmasters accuracy, presumed retooling of the SDCC, sword a possibility
You can buy a 3p sword to complete the hasbro TR version or be one of the first 100 in hong kong to get a freebie (but it'll cost more), right now for me its cheaper to get the SDCC.
But if people are patient the legends MIGHT be the cheapest option after shipping if he ends up the same as unite warriors devastator
>>5746667
I think it's good that a version of a toy isn't exclusive to one convention in one country ever.
The idea of a regional releases of an exclusive is much better than entire singular worldwide exclusive in my opinion.
I still hate the head design on voyager galvatron but the hasbro head is the laziest thing they could of done
>>5746678
Fair call, I know I wouldn't even touch hasbro fortmax from local tru
>>5746683
Bit of a shame, I kinda like the purple
>>5746683
Kinda reminds me of the scrapped Spark Pilot thing for Tigerhawk and TMII Megatron
>>5746685
Such a crap figure.
>>5746054
The fact that the Legends mold doesn't even have a chest cannon means the deluxe blows it out of the water.
The legends mold makes a good small scale megatron, though.
>>5746685
Why couldn't the cannon connection be on a rotating shell around the upper arm? Then you could have the cannon be on the front or the side while keeping the double elbow and beefing up the upper arms.
Oh who am I kidding, this is the same company that released Betatron and gave two of six Constructicons shit arms for "Stability."
>>5746704
>same company
Except takara "fixed" those 2 constructicons, while galvatron has the same arm connection on both
>>5746704
>>5746714
It's G1 accurate! Intentional callback! Not lazy!
>>5746704
>inb4 retard saying "it's g1 accurate!" despite looking terrible.
>>5746735
It's 2016. Why are we still doing Transformers which are based on things from the 80s?
>>5746735
So far takara's is closest to g1 accurate.
None homage the toy, well there is one but its kinda oc.
Cheers grand galvatron
>>5746685
This is so close to exactly what I want out of Generations Galvatron
3P upgrade gods hear my prayer;
New head, cannon, and cannon mount pls pls plsss
>>5746683
>the hasbro head is the laziest thing they could of done
Not true. The absolute laziest thing is if they just used the same head as another figure in the wave that looks nothing like Megatron as a little robot, and even less like Galvatron because, fuck it, most of the face is going to be covered by that crown/faceplate nonsense anyway.
Then again, I'm banking on some third-party making their own versions and add-ons anyway, so whatever.
>>5746765
Well, also maybe some beefy mcbeeferson doom shoulders that can stay clipped through transformations.
>>5746704
>Why couldn't the cannon connection be on a rotating shell around the upper arm?
Not even that. Just mold the arm to have multiple connection points and maybe have the base of the cannon be designed to move/rotate in whatever way allows it to sit higher or lower on the arm.
I asked about the jap Wingblade Optimus Prime in this thread a bit ago. I got it, and goddamn, what a beautiful figure. They don't engineer them like this anymore.
>>5746767
In my opinion the face works for galvatron and the head seems to be a universal fit, so far only blurr's head differs>>5746528
>>5746530 and that's about it.
The limitation is they made the heads so they can all fold and sit into cockpits, if they made the galvatron face do that on its own it may hinder itself from this arbitrary function.
Otherwise they could of avoided the need for spring loaded crowns and over reaching helmets, its all because they wanted the little head dudes somewhere to sit when transformed
Oh and the little galvatron head dude does look like megatron, infact takara's repainted it (or rather, painted it at all) specifically for that purpose
>>5746675
SDCC for me.
>>5746776
>the face works for galvatron
>Oh and the little galvatron head dude does look like megatron,
I know he does. The point was he was lazily done because, at least in part, he is almost completely unpainted. MY point was that it would be even lazier if he didn't look like Megatron or Galvatron at all, and was just a straight recolor of another headmaster in the line.
