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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 7, 2019 21:15:18 GMT
That's nice.
Nothing in my inbox yet.
Andrew
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 7, 2019 22:21:23 GMT
Nothing from IDToys themselves. And they assured me last time I raised the issue that their system did send dispatch emails!
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Post by Llama God on Nov 8, 2019 7:35:17 GMT
I'm starting to trust them a little less for some reason...
Nothing for me, either. I'm guessing that's because they've sold out of the reissue cassettes or something and need to find more. (Yes I know what they say about pre-ordering things at the same time, but they went up at the same time and were meant to be released at the same time. Ah well...)
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Post by browny87 on Nov 8, 2019 10:01:11 GMT
its still a bit shitty aint it!
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 8, 2019 13:24:34 GMT
At the end of the day vote with wallets. Use the services you like.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 8, 2019 14:51:36 GMT
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Post by legios on Nov 8, 2019 22:33:10 GMT
Only because I'm an old fuddy duddy really. I know you're a fan of new names and characters coming into the line. I wish I was, but I'm old and grumpy and all I really want is new versions of the characters I love. Because I've already got Prowl, Bluestreak and Smokescreen, Barricade is surplus to requirements regardless of how nice he looks. Ok, that's a fair enough position to take. A nostalgia thing basically. I can understand that intellectually - even if I don't really feel the same (non-coding nostalgia gene. Apparently they broke it when they tried to engineer in either Newtype Awareness or the ability to generate Superdimensional energy waves by song. The project records for the development of my current sleeve are...not well organised. Not that either actually seem to have taken properly in the genome either... :-) ) But I think it is one of the major "blocs" in modern TF fandom. My impression is the "G1" bloc and the "IDW Comic" bloc are probably the two largest "chunks" of fandom in that regard. I kind of find myself missing lines like Galaxy Force/Cybertron and Energon/superlink - which even when they did reuse names, gave us very different takes. Or things like Alternators/Binaltech, which kept general design themes but implemented them in different ways. It is why I kept my MP-03, and off-loaded my reissue Starscream, Classics and Robotmasters for example - MP-03 was an interesting modernisation and up-date of the alt-mode and felt more interesting to me than just another version of the same thing. It is the reason that I'm not feeling any interest in Earthrise Starscream similarly - it is pretty much a thing I've seen before, only bigger. (I have often concluded that in comparison to most of fandom my orbit around Transformers is - technical terms both "eccentric" (tipped well out of the normal orbital plane) and "retrograde" (going around in the opposite direction to everyone else) though. And my spin axis is probably a bit off the norm as well. :-)) Karl
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Post by legios on Nov 8, 2019 22:39:54 GMT
I was the one that let you know, I was your sorry ever after, '84, '85. Gimme new toys and I'll decided, but I'm really only after, '84, '85...*Glares at Kaptain Karlos, THE CURSED BARRICADE (Puttup!) LOVER!* You think that little heresy is why I am a-cursed? When measured against all my other heretical positions - my liking Beast Machines at the time I first saw it nearly twenty years ago, my not being bothered one way or another for the Sunbow Cartoon, the fact that I display some of my transformers in their VEHICLE MODE! In the face of all those you think I am a-cursed merely for liking that there is an evil, violent police decepticon? That's sweet of ya... Karl
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 8, 2019 22:46:15 GMT
You're a pure fan, Karlos. You see Transformers in their purest form. And for that, I love you....
...even though you bought a Barricade toy remolded from a Prowl... #£@&£$%#@....
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 9, 2019 0:01:45 GMT
I'm with you on Energon/Cybertron, Karl. Generations I like to be G1, but a different continuity and a full toyline for it and I'd be over the moon with redesigns and new names. It's odd to look back on the Unicron trilogy as a nostalgic highlight because it didn't feel like one at the time, but imagine the excitement about something like that launching now.
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 9, 2019 18:23:18 GMT
I've said it before, as many of us have, that the 'old cast' need a rest for a bit. Even a Hard-line '84/'85er like me is getting board. Have a Prime and a Megatron if you must in every new line, but it's time to do something different now, Hasbollocks. It's time to step out of the formula and shake it up.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 9, 2019 18:51:58 GMT
I think it always comes down to: buy whatever toys you want that you can afford within whatever your toy budget is. Don't buy what you don't want. Vote with your wallet.
-Ralph
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Dezzeh
Thunderjet
Wait, what?
Posts: 4,822
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Post by Dezzeh on Nov 10, 2019 21:45:55 GMT
Gotta rescue stuff from Royal Mail and parcelforce tomorrow. Also snagged a masterforce Ranger today for a reasonable price!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 13, 2019 20:37:05 GMT
BBTS Charged me tonight for my Rungs and Singes. Just need the Micromasters
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 13, 2019 21:09:26 GMT
I notice a plural on the Battlemasters there.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 13, 2019 21:18:13 GMT
Your point, caller?
I've bought multiples of all the single Battlemasters. So they'll be a Singe to play with and one to go with Spinister, and Shrute (Hairsplitter)
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 13, 2019 21:24:01 GMT
You are in deep.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 13, 2019 21:37:05 GMT
He's crazy. He's as mad as a box of frogs.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 13, 2019 23:05:21 GMT
Just wait till the Rampmasters
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 13, 2019 23:05:44 GMT
BBTS Charged me tonight for my Rungs and Singes. Just need the Micromasters .... which have just arrived at BBTS.
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Dezzeh
Thunderjet
Wait, what?
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Post by Dezzeh on Nov 14, 2019 20:28:38 GMT
Pretender Crossblades today, very elusive to me, never even handled one before. Looks amazing!
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Post by blueshift on Nov 14, 2019 20:34:08 GMT
Pretender Crossblades today, very elusive to me, never even handled one before. Looks amazing! Oh man, he and Vroom are THE DREAM As a kid I stared at the pics in the catalogue, trying to work out how they worked!!
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 14, 2019 22:38:47 GMT
Pretender Crossblades today, very elusive to me, never even handled one before. Looks amazing! Oh man, he and Vroom are THE DREAM As a kid I stared at the pics in the catalogue, trying to work out how they worked!! Hmmmm. Well, we all stared at catalogues when we were kids...
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 14, 2019 22:46:33 GMT
New catalogue in the poll tomorrow which features the Mega Pretenders
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 14, 2019 23:09:54 GMT
Hmmmm. Well, we all stared at catalogues when we were kids... FILTH!
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Dezzeh
Thunderjet
Wait, what?
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Post by Dezzeh on Nov 14, 2019 23:44:27 GMT
Got all 3 Megas now, though I think I could do with a better Thunderwing.. Criminally underrated.
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 15, 2019 16:56:03 GMT
Hmmmm. Well, we all stared at catalogues when we were kids... FILTH! Yes but YOU knew what I meant! YOU KNEW! So who is the most filthy?! THE FILTHER, OR THE FLITHERER?!?!
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 15, 2019 22:25:34 GMT
Um. Whichever one of those you are.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 16, 2019 8:57:34 GMT
POTP Backwing III, to complement the Dreadwind I bought in Home Bargain, arrived yesterday.
{Blackwing I & II, along with Dreadwing I & II, are mounted on POTP Starscream)
Also arrived was the eBay Ratchet that caused IDToys to get some. So if anyone still hasn't go theirs post weekend, when the left over ones they took to the Comiccon get released, maybe we can come to an arrangement?
IDToys aalso reportedly got their Siege Barricades just before closing on Friday so all being well I should have my long awaited one of those next week.
And my w5 Battlemasters and Micromasters are en route from BBTS, probably via a dwell in the hands of customs!
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 16, 2019 12:31:00 GMT
I'll happily relieve you of a Ratchet to save Toph looking for more if there's one going spare.
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