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Post by Llama God on Nov 26, 2022 9:30:18 GMT
That certainly does seem needlessly complex for such a rubbish alt mode. Maybe they were trying to make it about the journey..?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 9, 2022 19:43:27 GMT
This is a warning for ALL CHUMS but especially Ralph: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRANSFORM SKULLGRIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The figure is quite fun. The Transformation on the other hand..... NO. And we know from the pics the tank is pants. It turns from a blocky robot into a brick. How hard can it be? I would like to invite Ralph to revisit his comments
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 9, 2022 21:58:02 GMT
It's a steaming pile of poo. Money saved!
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Dec 10, 2022 9:21:34 GMT
A fun little robot though, having had a fiddle of Mr. Spence's. Maybe when it's down to half price.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 10, 2022 10:53:22 GMT
So.... What do we think? Could they do it?
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 10, 2022 12:02:40 GMT
Oh balls.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 10, 2022 17:17:09 GMT
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Post by Llama God on Dec 11, 2022 9:17:29 GMT
So.... What do we think? Could they do it? I think they could. And more importantly, I think they should.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 11, 2022 9:18:56 GMT
I mean everyone here would buy 2, one for themselves and one for Ralph.
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Post by Llama God on Dec 11, 2022 9:30:46 GMT
If it happens he's going to be such a lucky boy.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 11, 2022 9:41:24 GMT
The luckiest!
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 10, 2023 23:11:19 GMT
Bomb Burst finally came out his box. It miss grade A+ status by having just one flaw: try transforming it without the jet canopy pinging off. You can see holes where there should be a pin holding it in place, but just like a similar issue with a chest plate on the Siegeker mode there inexplicably isn't one.
Otherwise, it is fabulous. I would rate it above Iguanus if it did not have this one flaw.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 14, 2023 21:10:11 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 14, 2023 21:12:40 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 21, 2023 13:28:10 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 21, 2023 13:29:32 GMT
How is it I got to last week before realising that the Autobot and Decepticon Legacy (and Legacy Evolution) boxes each have half of that range's picture and form the entire thing if placed next to each other?
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 21, 2023 22:59:48 GMT
Oh, Phil.
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Feb 22, 2023 8:00:08 GMT
It's okay, I didn't realise that at all. But then we only tend to get a single figure at a time, and the boxes are straight into the recycling, so we never get much of a chance to see anyway. And as for looking closely at boxes in the shop, usually a Scraplet's present, so attention is generally on making sure chaos isn't occurring elsewhere...
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 6, 2023 22:51:39 GMT
Galvatron is nice chunky figure. I have him posed with ER Ultra Magnus so they can shoot the ground together.
THE NEW LEADERS ARE HERE.
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Mar 7, 2023 8:16:36 GMT
Where?
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 7, 2023 10:54:41 GMT
HERE.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Mar 7, 2023 16:28:21 GMT
Not there?
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 7, 2023 17:05:34 GMT
and everywhere....!
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 2, 2023 9:41:12 GMT
I can't find the recent conversation we had about there not being more reuses of the Earthrise jet mould, but it occurs to me having a fiddle with Armada Starscream this morning that it might be to do with the shift in size of Voyagers this year. I'm surprised how small Voyager Armada Scream is, not compared to the original (obviously) but to other recent Voyager jets. Then I realised that we've seen a downsize in Voyagers recently - not just the beasts, but everyone commented on how slender Tarn is too. It could be that even Earthrise moulds are now too expensive to put out at the voyager price. I know Dirge is coming as a PR, but he might be excused on the grounds there's no development cost in just reissuing a toy. I'm just thinking that might be why we don't see the ER jet mould outside more expensive exclusives.
Anyway, yes. Armada Scream I've been really looking forward to as Armada is one of my favourite TF lines. He's a bit underwhelming though. Very small jet mode, and although the transformation maintains a lot of the original, the robot is floppy as hell. On mine the bicep swivels are really loose so his arms wobble about and his hip joints are really weak.
It also seems silly to me that, yes, we have his iconic wing sword, but why give us the star sabre when what he really needs is a couple of missile ends to sit in the launchers? Fab that they swing over like the originals, but what's the point when there's nothing to put in them? I can't find an upgrade kit with some either.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 4, 2023 7:45:26 GMT
I opened Crankcase last night and discovered something I didn't notice with Skids, mostly because the pins in Skids' knees are tight and he has no trouble standing. Crankcase meanwhile is much floppier and his knees are quite loose. Bemoaning the fact that pins in knees aren't the best way to support a figure again (see also, AWE Striker Bumblebee) I noticed that there is actually a ratchet in that figure's knee joint, but the pawl (and yes, I had to look that term up) doesn't reach the teeth of the gear underneath. Same with Skids. So it looks like that mould should have a nice solid clicky knee joint but whether by accident or design, it's been disabled.
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 4, 2023 21:55:34 GMT
Pawl.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 10, 2023 16:15:05 GMT
Nightprowler released from packaging. That is a very, very nice colour scheme in hand.
This may be heresy, but I think this Cheetor mould is far superior to the original one in BW.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 10, 2023 20:10:05 GMT
Never been that keen on the yellow bits on Nightprowler
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 10, 2023 20:22:18 GMT
I like it as it suggests the Cheetor within.
Sandstorm on the way to be his pal.
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Apr 11, 2023 7:08:45 GMT
This may be heresy, but I think this Cheetor mould is far superior to the original one in BW. I mean, the point of these updates is to improve upon the originals. Which is difficult with Beast Wars, so if one hits then I'd say that's a success.
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