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News:
>Dan Gilvezan will be attending TFCon Toronto this July
>>5629854
Would any of the Victorion limb bots look any good on some of the other torsos or would their color scheme stand out too much?
>>5629864
I think Victorion itself would have looked pretty good if they didn't make its arms two huge, chunky cars
I realise it would have #triggered the people who voted for Victorion in the first place, but surely Hasbro could have used the Groove mould or the plane mould for the arms to make it more feminine?
>>5629864
A lot of the other combiners limbs clash visually with each other. The best looking ones are probably Predaking and Devastator, who are the most visually cohesive/complementary colored.
Too bad theres no fucking CW Predaking.
>>5629865
Swap her copter legs for her car arms.
>>5629864
Using one limb would work or all of them, mabye. Two or three are the only true wrong answers.
>>5629873
It might work but then she has huge cankles
Or would that be... carnkles
>>5629876
Well, play around with her limbs when you get'er.
Shit, surprised no online stores have her yet.
>>5629881
Good figures are selling poorly. Would you order this mess knowing that?
What makes Rescue Bots High Tide "essentially a headmaster"?
>>5629843
Legit thought that picture was of Unicron.
What's with all the misassemblies from Takara lately?
>lg black widow
>mp ramjet
>mp ironhide
>>5629864
Scattershot could be good if you picked out some details to break up his sea of red.
He'd be godlike with the Vic legs with CW and UW Blades as arms for arms.
>>5629892
>>5629883
Yes, because I like the deco, the character, and the bigass sword. I'm probably in the minority on this, but then again, bigass online shops like TFS and BBTS stock tons of shit no one buys like all of the shit quality 3P figures and weeaboo shit like nendo's and figma's, this at least has a chance of selling.
>>5629928
Must be all the shit on the indian's hands making it hard to hold a screwdriver.
>>5629946
and yet you still refuse to get a job, Jin.
>>5629946
Jokes aside, I don't think HasTak have moved to Indian-based factories yet.
pew pew
Not a grail, but just a set I've wanted since I first saw it. I love all the molded-in detail and the way the base folds out is actually pretty elaborate.
>>5630014
Flattop Anon?
>>5630015
Ha, yep. Micromasters are my new thing apparently.
>>5630029
>tfw Titans Return is basically a micromasters/headmasters hybrid what with all the playsets and vehicles
Feels good man
>>5630029
get this one senpai
>when you could've bought the RID spychangers all those years ago from woolies but didn't because toys weren't cool when you were in highschool listening to eminem and papa roach and playing Tony hawk.
i hate myself sometimes.
>>5630004
I really wish my combiners could hold Shockwave. Their arms go all the way down since he's too heavy.
>>5630061
I'm worried Thunderwing will do the splits at some point, since Shockwave's a bit heavy for him too.
I don't like the trigger guard on Shockwave - it really limits who can hold him.
>>5630061
Say hello to your new best friend, Anon.
>>5630053
That was me during classics and good bayverse toys
>>5630079
Doesn't work as great as you think.
>>5630107
I have better luck with nail polish.
>>5629866
Cool, cooler, coolest pose, soundwave desu ga.
>>5629940
I did. I mean, he's got a cool head reveal, but I don't see what makes him headmaster-esque.
I do want one to kitbash into an Earth Mode Omega Supreme, though.
>>5630156
The big omega supreme body is a base-boat. The head is the actual high tide. So he's kind of like a headmaster mixed with minimus/Magnus kind of thing.
>>5630156
You didn't try
https://youtu.be/sx8H02M94D0
>>5630169
Man, now I want generations-style figures of the Rescuebots, High Tide looks like a badass with a cool transformation scheme.
>>5630107
It's worked for me every time except one. Sometimes you need two coats of it, and it needs a full 24 hours to dry each time.
looks like some fans are trying to continue the prime series
>>5630284
Been seeing this, good luck to the guy
>>5629930
Why didn't they retool Blades to get rid of the obvious missiles? He's a rescue helicopter, but the missiles stick out like sore thumbs and ruin the illusion of a rescue helicopter. It wouldn't piss me off so much if they hadn't done exactly that for Victorion's choppers.
>>5630284
>>5630287
hia galvatron looks pretty dope
>>5630290
Probably should've started with the no-missile arms for Vicky and Blades, then retooled it into missiles for Voxtrx and Bravo.
>>5630292
>>5630290
good question. the usual answer is, "cause hasbro's lazy " (see: betatron, lack of coloring on CW wheeljack, lack of elbows on CW devastator, etc)
>>5630292
Just purple megatron.
>>5630284
Why? It was a decent series but utterly forgettable. Besides, RiD is a sequel already.
>>5630169
I was talking about the toy.
>>5630329
Why are you surprised? Since when is Galvatron not just a recolored Megatron?
>>5629890
Hotrod.
>>5630386
Isn't Hot Rod gay?
>>5630394
He experimented in college. But the other guy was a real psycho so he went right back to women.
>>5630414
If his exhaust port has had a throbbing male piston inside it, he is forever tainted
>>5630423
Especially if it was Overlord's.
>>5630414
>that one time when Hot Rod fucked a psychotic gay midget
Man, good times.
>>5630435
Psychotic was right. After that one event, Overlord was later arrested for sodomizing an inebriated teammate at an energon kegger. He was damned to a guilty conviction after footage surfaced from his phone where he filmed the event. Of course, photos leaked all over the cybernet, insuring the victims anonymity was ruined.
>>5630386
Now have a Decepticon holding Hot Rod's head down poking his eye out.
>>5630459
Swerve seems like he's having a good enough time.
Ironically, Hotrod's marital strife probably stems from his succcess. Star of the trideovision police drama "SWAT-Rod", he was introduced to his wife Arcee by one of his co-stars, Chromia. Who, as he would unfortunately learn the hard way, introduced the bored housewife to the idea of threesomes, group orgies, and of course, cuckoldry.
>>5630538
What are those guns that Rook is holding from?
>>5630564
Perfect Effect's hand/feet. The feet turn into 4 bigass chainguns.
Hotrod was devastated by the discovery of his wife's infidelity.
>>5630564
They're the gun modes for the perfect effect combiner feet. The guns are shit and not worth the extra cash as compared to the KOs that don't change in to guns.
>>5630571
Except no where carried the KOs and uncle Billy still hasn't shipped the ones from last year jfc.
>>5630538
Chromia sounds like a fun person as long as you don't form bonds
>>5630580
She was oddly enough, Arcee's catapult to stardom herself, helping launch her sensophonic hotsim pornographic career alongside Chromia under lauded smut director Bombshell.
Winner of over 5 Enerdong awards, including the coveted "Most Interracial Gangbangs" featuring most of the Maximal cast.
She now dates Optimus Primal.
>>5630585
>When all these animals are banging your wife
REMOVE BEAST SUB-CYBERTRONIANS
>>5630463
I actually used that scene as a reference for the pose. Berserk's a great manga. Can't quite pull off the eyestab thing though, as I don't really have any figures with small enough, fully articulated fingers like that.
>>5630169
I watched this entire show, as well as the JP version of Headmasters, and never put the headmaster thing together til you pointed it out. Fuck me.
>one member of the combiner team is outrageously expensive
might as well just go ahead and kill myself now since my soul will never be at rest again
>>5630670
Which one man?
>>5630670
>>5630685
At the moment it's deluxe Groove. There's some asshole in Taiwan that wants over $100 for it. Charging a markup to make a profit is acceptable, but there's a limit to how much over you can charge before you become an exploitive piece of shit.
>>5630685
combiner OP here
RID rapid run. trains will never be complete.
>>5630700
Fuck that. Wait until he gets his US release this May and try to nab one then.
>>5630708
That was the plan. I missed the boat on Breakneck and ended up paying double retail, but not anywhere near the price the Taiwanese guy wants for Groove. Slingshot I didn't have to worry about as I bought UW Superion. I have Hasbro everything else though, so Groove is one I will need.
>>5629866
I like the aesthetic of non matching robots combining but having a common theme.
When they all match it's like the small ones just become a bigger version of themselves rather than something different from the individual components
>>5630700
Yuck, you're better off getting Defensor at that point.
I'm sure glad I don't intend to get Groove, I was lucky with Wildrider, but I fear it will be hectic to get Groove.
So Thunderhoof and quillfire have been on HTS for a bit.
Any in store sightings?
>>5630300
>lazy
I wish they would filter this to "I'm a faggot", cause that's what you are
>>5630724
Hopefully they anticipate the demand, impose buying limits, and he doesn't get fucking scalped to shit.
Though it's gonna look a little weird to see Groove hanging out with a Groove chestplate on my Defensor.
>>5630734
It'll be Groove and his nephew Groovy-Doo
"Boobie Power!"
>>5630670
That's what you get for not going UW ;)
>>5630747
Don't talk to me or my son ever again.
>>5630767
Okay.
>>5630767
And here is the reply you so desperately crave.
>>5630734
You know they won't fucking meet demand. It's going to sell out almost immediately everywhere. Last time, the only reason I even got a Slingshot was due to dumb luck since he was back in stock on Amazon in the middle of the day.
Yooooooooooo, is that totally Knock Out?
Warrior toy when? His original toy had shit decos and was probably smaller than a standard Warrior class. Though I do like the BBTS version.
>>5630284
Why is Springer so prominent?
Why is Hot Rod here when Smokescreen was Hot rod in the show?
Why use Galvatron when Megatron had a conclusion in the show?
Why not use someone like Sixshot, The Combaticons or Skorponok as the villain?
>>5630292
Does Galvatron have a Predacon symbol on his chest?
Where is Predaking in all of his?
>>5630789
>asking questions about a fanfic to anyone but the person behind it
>>5629928
>MP Ironhide
What missassembly?
>>5630777
It's just an easter egg for fans, supposedly not actually him.
>>5630777
It's so strange to see the old models in the new style.
>>5630777
>Knock Out going to towyards to scope out da pussy
he was always based
Lugnut got a G1-style toy, Knock Out with your Cock Out when
>>5630386
>>5630414
>>5630463
I never thought i'd see a Berserk homage on here in this thread.
>>5630864
Yeah like seeing that Orange Airachnid and Soundwave as well.
TF_Yuki is tweeting 2 images of the old ruination set.
>bath day?
>bath day! :D
*translated via twitter
One facebook pages has automatically assumed it means UW ruination, tell me, what do you think this means?
I'm not up to scratch with my car robots information and I assumed it was "birthday" via shitty translations, what else could this be?
>>5631031
It would be nice to see Hasbro do a Ruination in their colours with the UW Blast-Off mold used as Movor. I would buy the shit out of it.
>>5631036
Fuck hasbro, I highly doubt we'd get a good gold and black chest.
I'm assuming IF takara did it it'd be painted gold and black, if hasbro bright plastic gold that would be a gps concern, no paint apps, the camo on the thighs would be mandatory
>>5631031
>bath day
If it's not a bad transliteration of 'birthday', it may be a paint bath Yuki's talking about, aka a redeco.
>>5631043
When was the last time TakTomy used gold on a TF figure? Honest question.
>>5631071
Think legends black aracnia...i think
is Armada Tidal Wave good
>>5631092
-Robot mode is kinda limited (sideways leg-action)
+It's able to transform without splitting into its individual components.
+3-components = instant fleet
+Nice gimmicks (rotating turrets, plane mini-con storage and deployment, tiny seats for minicons)
Overall it's a great toy to go with mini-cons and the like, especially if you're going to collect the upcoming Titanmasters.
>>5631098
How are Tidal Wave's components put together? Is it also via Powerlinx pegs, or is there a sturdier connection?
Also, size comparison of Tidal Wave, High Tide, and a CW deluxe please.
>>5631031
Those dudes in Japan had hot springs as the thing that they liked as a team.
>>5631102
His waist is attached via a large C clip and his arms are the same kind, if slightly different size, as Cybertron Optimus/Megatron. Both are very secure
>>5631102
Which CW Deluxe do you want.
>>5631107
Well, this explains everything.
No UW ruination then, wallet spared
>>5631111
Rook, Offroad or Dead End (or retools) please.
>>5631114
ok did a quick one
uw-08
>>5631126
smexy
>>5631126
I like that the vehicle modes are all doing their own things in the background.
>Scattershot and Strafe flying
>Lightspeed driving around
>Groove doing an ollie
>Nosecone drilling out of the fucking ground
>>5631116
Thanks anon! Those two are big fuckers.
>>5631043
I was hoping for a grey and black chest with urban camo Armorhide. Takara can do the show colors, I want the US toy colors.
So I just got some good pay, after blowing most of it off onto a friend its now time to decide what do I want.
>option1
Legends whirl (no association to character I just like monoeyes) takara generations ultra magnus wfc (could get prime instead but he cost as much as a voyager unlike mold mate magnus) and wfc starscream takara version
>option2
MP ratchet all on his own (hated mp ironhide but for some reason ratchet really clicks with me, same way johnny bravo mp hotrod clicked)
Both options are roughly the same price with shipping being different (ratchet I can group with a monthly order the other lot has its own bill), lay it too me
>>5631208
It's a Voyager of a character you're not familiar with plus two 2012-tier Deluxes, or a hot new Masterpiece.
I'd go with Ratchet.
>>5631126
sweet.
>>5631208
Gonna go say get Ratchet, the FoC line + Whirl is pretty meh. Also you'll save some space.
So long ago my holy grail was mp10, feel in love with it, he sadly remains in his box until a display cupboard is acquired.
But does anyone have any thoughts to the oversized mpp10 knock off, been thinking of grabbing the black version just so it gives it an excuse to even exist in an otherwise official display while being unique.
Thoughts?
I'd have him just hanging around in open space as my go to muck about toy, the ben's collectables review gave good vibes especially (chuckle) the part where he mentioned he'd give it to his son to play with, and at half the fucking price of the real, smaller deal why the fuck not?
>>5631126
Can't wait.
>>5630789
>Why use Galvatron when Megatron had a conclusion in the show?
Galvatron was a separate character from Megatron in the comics. It's a super cliche title but it could mean that Galvatron is some ancient bot that was cast out/sealed away/thought to have been killed long long ago, possibly even before the war like during the ancient early days of Cybertron or something and he has somehow resurfaced to take revenge on all Cybertronians in general or some shit? I'm kind of doubting that though considering the insistence of shoving Hot Rod in despite Smokescreen kinda filling Hot Rod's role in the Prime series. Not to mention Springer's inclusion. It feels like whoever is trying to do this is just trying to undermine Prime's intentional shift towards new and different ideas and push things back towards the things G1 established.
>Does Galvatron have a Predacon symbol on his chest?
Looks nothing like the Prime Predacon insignia. It has the crest of the Decepticon insignia but the whole rest of the face is totally different.
>>5631137
>Groove
>>5630979
>Lugnut got a G1-style toy
No he didn't. He got a movie version toy.
>>5631340
IMO, that thing is FAR more CHUG than movieverse. It was pretty much designed to fit into both though.
Is this a good toy /tfg/?
>>5631361
Nah. It's movieverse. Just not as busy.
Grand Galvatron vs Galvatronus, go!
>>5631380
awkward shoulders.
>>5631386
Like how all the other reveal the shield guys are movie figures.
>>5631396
Damn, that torso looks way better than expected.
The limbs seem a bit out of place though.
>>5631417
To be honest I'm slightly dissapointed, thought they grey on the chest was metallic but it's pure plastic, still nice though.
What exactly is out of place with the limbs?
>>5631396
I want those Thrust and Roller
>>5631431
What's the appeal of Roller? To me it's hardly any different from Rook.
>>5631441
Rook is easily one of the best CW molds so that ain't too bad.
>>5631441
He might just like the colors more. He is one of the 2 lazy ones in the set though so you'll pretty much get the same experience with either version.
>just scored a Tidal Wave complete for £25 because the missiles were grey and not red
I also got a couple of complete Sea Mini-Con teams on the cheap. MY ARMADA BEGINS
>>5631386
It's a Cybertron toy you dipshit.
>>5631470
I have this story...
>Buy CHUG Cyclonus
>Buy CHUG Galvatron
>Expected CHUG Scourge to come out
>Went back and collected all marine-based toys from the Unicorn Trilogy to build an Sweep Armada for Scourge since he's pretty much a space-boat.
>Then, they released Generations Scourge...as a plane
Not that Generations Scourge was a bad toy.
>>5631482
Kek. Well at least you have the boat Scourge coming out soon.
>>5631477
...are you okay? Or are you talking about Lugnutz?
>>5631482
Should've just bought every cybertron sideways and universe ratbats you could find.
>>5631027
I fucking love Berserk. Shit like Transformers, Voltron, Thundercats is what got me into anime oddly enough, because as a kid I was smart enough to look up those production companies who did the animation and it just kind of snowballed from there.
>>5631482
The Destron Kantai are all good, so it isn't a big loss
>TR Note: Destron means "Decepticon"
>TR Note: Kantai is a Japanese term usually used in a manner similar to "fleet" in English
>>5631491
That sounds rad. Don't forget Noisemaze.
>>5631504
just according to keikaku
>>5631504
You sound like someone who's mother is ashamed of them.
>>5631529
Nah, my mom likes me. It is myself that is shamed by me.
>>5631396
>Grand Galvy
+G1 toy colors
+dedicated limbs
-Cyclonus and Galvy bits don't blend well
-dedicated limbs are random
-Roller is a shitty repaint
-Starscream will disintegrate
>Galvatronus
+nice purple
+cheaper
-no dedicated limbs
>>5631651
>Starscream will disintegrate
We'll this is ghost Starscream here. Maybe that's the new gimmick?
>>5631651
>-no dedicated limbs
This can also be seen as a plus since you can use any limb you want.
>>5631677
They should have gone with black clear plastic for full disintegrating accuracy.
>>5631492
Same Here.
I watched it early last year and it's left an impression on me more than most other series I've watched. Most anime after they finish, I'm like that was fun I suppose and forget about it but Berserk, I think it about it at least once or twice a day.
I never thought of Rodimus as Guts though. I kind of imagine someone like Springer or Optimus Prime.
>>5631719
Read the manga, it's got a lot more to it than the anime. Just get ready to wait once you get around 30 or 40 volumes in. The manga artist literally spends all his time playing IdolM@ster rather than drawing and writing his manga.
>>5631731
loadingu loadingu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y6hogKehZE
>>5631651
>-dedicated limbs are random
Not really, the comic explains it (is it a pack in?): Galvatron is living parasitically in Cyclonus' abdomen, using the hatch from the toy to pop out whenever he wants to say something. Unicron fucking comes out of nowhere and pulls various characters who have died in different continuities to give him a body so he can act as Unicron's herald again.
>>5631400
How awkward?
C'mon guys wtf
>>5631783
somebody bumped the old thread instead of using this one.
>>5631794
Why even make a new one if the old one isn't 404
>>5631797
There is a 95% probability that there was a mass-deletion of posts after the Auto-sage.
>>5631804
Why do they keep doing that? One of the mods is obviously fucking around here.
>>5631825
/tfg/ is mostly shitposts
>>5631833
Would any of us really be here, enjoying it as much, if it weren't?
>>5631835
Yes we would.
>>5631833
/tfg/ may be terrible but I wouldn't have it any other way.
>>5631441
>What's the appeal of Roller
Supposedly,
>hoi doi IDW Tarn figure!!!
>>5631825
TFW mod does part time work here.
>>5631862
But he doesn't wear the mask or is a huge purple and black deathtank
No fun
CW G2 Superion is sub-$80 on Amazon again for anyone looking for'em.
>>5631691
Would a scourge be as unwanted as any the wave six guys? honestly?
>>5631870
It takes minimum effort to get those idjits going.
>>5631705
I'd buy it.
>>5631872
UW Superion and Menasor have both dropped to sub £100 on ebay if anyone cares also.
>>5631862
It's more the sheer absurdity of UW acknowledging IDW canon of their own volition at all.
>>5631905
Takara and Japanese fans aren't as bizarrely anal or exclusionary about aspects of the franchise. That's why we still get BW homages from them periodically while Hasbro kind of twiddles their thumbs since the design team change. They're always doing references to things from all sorts of different series. A lot of the creators over their are also huge fanboys and keep up on happenings on the US side. The Powered Convoy repaint of Ultra Magnus is named after Delta Magnus from IDW, for example.
Hell, going back further MP Optimus' gun transformation is based on a panel from an IDW comic.
>>5631905
Apparently, the comics are popular in Japan. Shit, they're popular in the US too.
>>5631914
I'm pissed both of these aren't regular releases. I want one of each to use as part of a pseudo-Brave combiner.
>>5631914
Hope the tit treads can rotate to the back on the UW, hate the hanging look, also missing the tread arms ...I may have to get an extra brawl and transplant the drill and head.
>>5631889
A clear plastic Sunstorm would be even cooler.
When is Takara gonna announce that Seeker combiner anyway? We all know that it's coming.
>>5631932
I'm kinda hoping the core is Cyclonous remolded as Machine wars Starscream, but I'm not sure who else would go for it.
>>5631937
I had the original version of that mould as a kid, though the MW colours are just perfect.
>>5631835
heh, didn't think my shitpost would get turned into a photoshop~
Glad you liked it anon!
>>5631937
That would be cool in my books.
>>5631932
>Sunstorm
I'd prefer a Deluxe Sunstorm to not be clear, honestly. So long as it isn't the yellow eyesore we got for the MP, that is.
>pic related, ignore meme
>>5631963
I think they would most likely use the same yellow as UW Sunstreaker.
>>5631932
>When is Takara gonna announce that Seeker combiner anyway? We all know that it's coming.
After they reveal their Liokaiser, have they even showed their space dragon or was Skylynx cancelled for Computron?
>>5631972
I doubt they'll cancel Skylynx. They did a fucking Grand Galvatron, a literal who. I won't be surprised if they put off Skylynx for Liokaiser first though.
Honestly, hoping they put off everything else for Liokaiser first.
>>5631969
That's a nice yellow. Wish they used that shade for MP Bee.
>>5631979
Yeah, I need to see their Liokaiser ASAP, I've loving all the combiners so far.
I'm pretty tempted to grab UW Menasor since he's finally cheap enough for me but the awkward legs are putting me off. Is he a mess without the Prefect Effect kits or is there a way of posing him that doesn't look too bad?
Also his sword is pretty lame, are there any unofficial options for a better/bigger one?
>>5632019
He needs the PE add on, at least the chest, the hand-foot-guns doesn't look that bad on the cons, also you can go for "g1 mode" rotating the feet cars, looks really nice, but you lose the knee articulation.
>>5632019
He poses about the same as the other combiners without the PE sets. The PE set that has the backbrace thingy comes with a sword extension too.
>>5631380
The shoulders are funky. Otherwise, yeah.
>>5631769
The shoulder ballposts point forward and slightly inward, with the shoulder sockets facing directly back. You can swing his arms out when they're pointing down, but you can't swing them out if you move them forward.
I still like the figure, though.
>>5632031
Right well now I'm poor as fuck but I'm sure it'll be worth it. I couldn't find the purple hands anywhere but I think black looks better for Menasor anyhow. Plus I can transplant them onto Defensor if I really want.
That sword extension is a big plus for sure. I'm still kinda gutted there's no way to combine it with Blackjacks axe thing to make a super-great-big-fuck-off-sword or something. Recreating that fight in Devastation would be badass.
>>5632076
Someone found out that if you cut the small hole in the handle of blackjack's axe open enough it can tab onto part of Menasor's sword to make a hilt. One-sided, yeah, but it looks pretty sweet if you're willing to take a knife to it.
>>5632076
I'm surprised you even found the black hands/feet sets. Most places have been sold out of the PE black/white/purple ones for months now.
>>5632110
Truth be told I'm actually buying the hands and other add on kit next week, I just grabbed Menasor now while he was 10% off.
Ebay seems to have a steady supply of them (mostly the white/bruticus ones) but since they're coming from China/Taiwan they could easily be KOs.
>>5632131
Yeah, KO sets of them are pretty prominent, but it seems like they're serviceable as long as you don't force things.
>>5631999
I wish Silverbolt was cheap enough so I could get 2 for the back cannons
>>5632076
I gave mine a Megazord sword, ignore the high shoulder fanmode.
>>5632152
I bought the second gun loose with a couple of junkers, pretty sure it is/will be easy to find in flea markets.
I keep seeing AOE Slog for cheap. Is he good, or what?
>>5632155
That sword looks good on him. Is it from the original version or the SRC?
I like the use of prime Rumbles piledrivers but that wait mod looks like it was a bitch to pull off.
>>5632160
I've not head anything really bad about him but the AoE dinobots didn't really do anything for me. Except for Scorn who looked badass.
>>5632165
Original I guess, its bendy ruber with long groves in the middle.
>>5631752
It's fucking retarded. He could just give Galvatron a body of his own.
>>5632280
I dunno man, the last guy he have a body to didn't exactly return the favor.
>>5632292
But grand galvatron ends up attacking unicron after he pulls himself together anyway.
Unicron had a hard life
>>5632312
Indeed, he a good bot.
>>5632280
Grand Galvatron WAS his new body though. He didn't give a single shit about the people he was pooling together to make it.
>>5631752
That's still pretty random.
>>5632361
>comic gives reasons
>its a japanese comic not bound by western values
>random
If you watched the japanese headmasters you'll see least this has had some thought put into it unlike some areas.
>>5632366
"Im the ninja consultant from earth"
Every fucking time
>>5631979
Sky-Lynx will be a remolded Purple Griffin.
>>5632355
He can't remain united forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPne-q4ynts
reminder that hasbro is moving their factories to india
Do I get MP-08x or do I get the MP-08x KO that is much bigger? They are both about the same price on Ebay shipped. I'm torn desu. I like the scale of the Robot mode on the official, but the Dino-mode is a perfect scale for the KO, and the robot mode is just slightly too big for my taste.
Which do I get /toy/?!
>>5632439
How are you going to display him? That should answer your question.
>>5632453
It's gonna change all the damn time is the issue. I do a lot of posing and picture taking with my figures. He's gonna flip-flop between both modes.
>>5632419
>that dumbass driver whose truck tipped over and knocked down a power line
>>5632457
Then I'd say go for the official. Smaller figures are usually easier to work with in terms of posing, I've found. Messing with my Legends has always been easy, but fucking around with my combiners is generally a half an hour of playing weight distribution unless I choose a simple pose.
Time varies of course, but the smaller ones are always easier for me.
>>5632476
>hour of playing weight distribution unless I choose a simple pose.
Yeah, they definitely needed better joints. And I've said this before, but I really would have liked if CW Voyagers got a price hike so they cold throw in the Hand/Feet parts with them.
I mean, I have no idea how good the Computron or Victorion Hand/Feet parts are, but anythings better than the default ones.
>>5632486
For me it's not the joints, all of them hold pretty well on my combiners. It's just the weight of it all. Like, Menasor is just a top heavy motherfucker. Even with PE stuff, he's still top heavy. I just can't do poses with him I can with, say, Superion, because he will want to just do a header off my shelving. So he takes the longest by far to mess with, usually a half an hour or more unless I'm just giving him a simple stance. And I usually lean him back against my shelving anyway just in case because I'm afraid my toy will try to high dive off and smash itself on my carpet into a pile of lost money and broken dreams.
>>5632419
So why is Hasbro moving their factories so quickly? ?
>>5631126
The cool thing about getting two Computrons is that we should get two pieces of cool artwork like this.
>>5631126
There are three words that come to mind here...
one of them starts with T
the next one starts with W
the last one starts with A
>>5631910
Plus, I think there's a certain appeal to putting in obscure foreign (to them) things. It's like how a few years ago before subs were common, anything related to Masterforce and Victory was this mystic unknown cool thing.
>>5632527
KO's basically. But lets be real, India is a TERRIBLE place to put the factories. No one wants to buy toys that have shit in the fine details. If Hasbro made good quality figures to start with that couldn't be made better and cheaper by Wangfungzhao-yiping they wouldn't have a problem. $80-100 for a figure that can be made, hand painted, and sold at the same standard for $30 is ridiculous. I have KO and Normal Wheeljacks, they literally have NO differences except for a slightly to thick tab on the gun on the KO.
Speaking of which, KO Tracks are out now
>Fucking why
It is already selling dirt cheap.
>>5632537
Wait, is Vietnam KOing their shit that blatantly?
>>5632527
Cost of labor, I imagine. That's generally why anyone would spend the millions it takes to relocate like that. I guess labor in Vietnam must have risen extremely fast, as they had only moved there fairly recently.
>>5632537
I'm really excited for the eventual KO MP Ironhide.
I wish we'd get a KO of Star Saber, too, but most of those companies are just focused on KOing the Autobot Cars.
>>5631999
What the fuck is this? Is this a cab add-on?
>>5632565
Well it's clearly not a stock part of onslaught.
>>5631999
Is this some 3P upcoming part, or is this some custom job someone did? Looks neat.
>>5632542
I heard Viatnam minimum wage is only a dollar less than US minimum wage
>>5632603
They must've been hemmoraging money then if thats true. Why not just keep it in China, surely the chinese do a cheaper job than the indians.
>>5632565
>>5632602
Its a custom, the cab was movie Bonecrusher.
Well, they finally posted just what the hell happened in the Botcon Sakamoto panel.
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/botcon-2016-japanese-g1-continuity-talk-with-hayato-sakamoto/35232/
It also turns out their Legends fiction is actually important to Japenese G1 fiction. Who knew?
>>5632646
>Sakamoto told me a few things that he’d like to see on the Wiki. Specifically, he’d like to see more images overall of artwork, especially more images of full-body character artwork.
Sensible man.
>>5632539
They are taking things and selling them to Chinese KO'ers.
>>5632549
A lot of people on Ebay that Sell KO's are also selling Star Sabers at $100. Idk if they are legit or not, but that's a solid price.
>>5632653
That's actually something that bothered me about the wiki. Many characters use multiple bodies, but we never really get all of them depicted.
>>5632657
I keep hearing the CW figure KO were pretty good, but I've never seen them. What generic name do they go by?
>>5632646
>
* As stated at the panel, one of the things Sakamoto set out to do with the Legends manga was to show Ultra Magnus’s rebirth into his G2 Laser Ultra Magnus body. However, in the Legends manga that showed Ultra Magnus’s rebirth, Ultra Magnus is shown waking up from inside his coffin in his Legends toy body instead. When asked if Ultra Magnus was reborn in his G2 Laser Ultra Magnus body or his Legends toy body, Sakamoto said it was the former, and explained that manga chapter as being more of a retelling of Magnus’s rebirth than a literal depiction. He also explained that Ultra Magnus can change his physical form back and forth between his G2 Laser body and his Legends body by the power of the Reconfiguration Matrix. This explains how Magnus was able to appear in his G2 Laser body during the post-G2 e-HOBBY manga and then as his Legends body later on in the Legends manga.
Is this the power of Japanese autism?
>>5632669
I honestly don't know. I've seen lots of pictures in previous threads and some people saying they work well and have equal plastic quality. The colors were all wonky as hell though. I don't remember the generic names sadly. I know all of the protectobots were KO'd. I'll dig and see what I find.
>>5632679
The Japanese are all born with autism. Every single one.
"When asked to tell more about how Black Convoy got his Energon Matrix, Sakamoto said that he’s waiting for a Unite Warriors Baldigus release before saying any more about that. I didn’t get to ask if he meant that there is a Unite Warriors Baldigus coming, or if he’s just wanting there to be one."
Baldigus confirmed maybe sorta not really?
>>5632688
Seems toxic to work with such a convoluted fiction. I'm glad most western things break it up by medium.
>>5632692
He also hinted at Baldigus/Ruination with the Legends Scourge comic. Then there's the fact that it's a repaint of Bruticus, so they don't have to make new parts or anything (well, maybe add weapons).
